Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c6ccc18942e18a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 10:07:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: ce86d4c0a32e7141362adf32da7bc770 SHA-1: 4dfa2c7e57d6614694ec6c7e47a9b99bfd797b80 SHA-256: 0c6ccc18942e18a9d762245c10a10b33c10748cd4e404137e71ae011c84b015c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document is flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a browser extension installation lure. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The document's structure and embedded links indicate a social-engineering tactic to prompt the user to install potentially harmful software.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133624b4eb12---70213711885.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ebsenglish.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/35271080363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelrestaurantmacarena.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85763328880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://centaur.vri.cz/docs/files/jafetevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jcpingie.be/public/files/9888189189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c99b46658f2376adccdc14857494935b/42175443850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7873e22524ed3df78fb53c907fa9c631/rageki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alirezamirmohammadi.com/images/upload/files/58593839558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalybm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1631300287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cowmoo.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88904535866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eol.org.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bedudokejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://movediary.com/userfiles/file/naxuvikosadulatine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161368baf5911f---51910249249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnhaduong.com/images/uploads/files/jupawejenezibarasegosifew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heart-calligraphy.com/uploads/files/202109070737434631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ou-ravda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/517445721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angel-conference.org/upload_fck/file/2021-9-16/20210916220206669053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhouzhuanx.com/v15/Upload/file/2021915156344635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prefinancovaniehypoteky.sk/res/file/xijegabevabibogudezezif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161450fa2d1eab---12482484639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vafalugewetanemozeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/rovabejuwob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowsontw.com/shopadmin/upload/files/sitevururubojurafubenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline.bet/contents/files/parukojok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=shortcut+to+clear+chrome+cachePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE096 16868 bytes
SHA-256: f5f52a584578c96ea0aa9a89c448cc1af1f9c30a86ee0dc44b8183ba4297ac3c
font_01_sfnt_off00010c61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C61 10304 bytes
SHA-256: 3d31aa63f04c49d4c01315389dfb30791e9ad4784db6ddd6ab30de697370b50d
font_02_sfnt_off000123ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123AD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1