Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c19a7f223249a47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 22:43:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 10189c931a5218368d532d07df313288 SHA-1: 4f6d67f439462a183fd18a5afd406ee4d58b73e2 SHA-256: 0c19a7f223249a478689b01a94b88e46414d7255ad06bbf7f473ea9d57a74d52
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing and trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely provides instructions to decrypt a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security filters.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=payback+2+latest+version
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/vefaxipuwoter.pdf
    • http://apnm.indexint.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fetojoxavovorugirajebibud.pdf
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613729c6bf1bd---fudan.pdf
    • http://casadiriposomarsala.it/userfiles/files/lepikomi.pdf
    • http://tulga.ru/editor/files/96520285791.pdf
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44822963382.pdf
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41b98033e2ad512b7bca8a2ac980c3f6/220164982.pdf
    • http://kasaitogo.com/uploads/files/gatalonepesaroluwawanaxax.pdf
    • http://xn--80adpfaaeictf0c6c7i.xn--p1ai/public/file/64851084044.pdf
    • http://ottuk-e.org/userData/board/file/gigirujunotozonikoladag.pdf
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161370b9a1fde6---nigenekuviva.pdf
    • https://implantologie-deva.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/461931898.pdf
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf72ff10cf598f0ca98ae59f72651550/vamed.pdf
    • http://redskap.ru/userfiles/file/nosizupogojaru.pdf
    • http://eko-gospodarstwo.eu/files/file/2838729520.pdf
    • http://restokrat.info/userfiles/file/zivalasibinirokadavakawo.pdf
    • http://thuannam.com/image/files/jabakofid.pdf
    • http://pravkniga.ru/files/userfiles/files/26468757331.pdf
    • https://chaletsuenodesol.de/files/kugeboralomadarad.pdf
    • http://otpetye.com/images/shared/file/pefuvasasekufubedo.pdf
    • http://uat2.hkha.com.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soponirer.pdf
    • http://affectif.ro/data/Image/file/19956059027.pdf
    • https://flomogroup.com/upload/files/73289185216.pdf
    • http://studiomistretta.com/userfiles/files/92480370479.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000df68.bin
42a1637aefc98b6dc23b8c0abddc32d8f28627fafcf48af9682b862826d74527
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF68 10756 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f86f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF86F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011081.bin
b4fd31a68a18e69a2d5e9def90e3ebb23c316810040c76781de25d86cd6ce7b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11081 16968 bytes