Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c4aae046cafa962…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-08-03 05:14:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: a902c3dc64203bab67fec29ce239e58b SHA-1: dbdfdc9ca4692c90982def79826b22e5637aeb92 SHA-256: 1c4aae046cafa96205c7cbd2921185b383e3704aba47155005f1d4c7e8da20a4
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The heuristic 'SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND' firing for 'CmdRun.exe -DownloadFile' suggests an attempt to execute commands, likely to download additional payloads. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious classification.

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
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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 http://svx.su/ffile/file/guxulanurewarujopixididu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/81656938886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--mgbaf4adbs1bd2i.net/upload/ckfinder/files/wurulifuzozozedagipoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/likeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/poxogunibetivukigog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areicon.com/images/file/rabitot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2ds-creations.fr/userfiles/file/44747675387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donkaew-furniture.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23760913532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxbrio.kr/files/files/kubesufowenosive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akoseq9f.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/69738342882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baodinhsolar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0k5a1vbuh5dtasgo8rshrnl3vg/bibetuvofezimopazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9609eee93---jomoseretirolitomubib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ou9sd2h954hhahg3ugj62mjt52/67187890886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vendingchat.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/77449695530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elsekmont.eu/userfiles/file/52019312931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jl-vacuum.com/upload/files/75568724135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiskreunion.com/clients/b/b4/b417c2091670ce0b0d78f4b231aea02c/File/vifipobul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-28/20210628103322157997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/42874040878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ef3c7dcf9cf14ca0316014299d905b0/79672703452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81da2942b0---85584779584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d302fgr50iae627svjs061igm1/tokalola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.microsinusectomi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074cf305be70---34521601414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ja49vvo2hks9lk8sgs2c3n7hjh/kolana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boulderdivorcelaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608481b2417e4---negamojimejomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=microsoft+antivirus+software+free+download+for+windows+7PDF 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_off0000ef54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF54 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010766.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10766 16436 bytes
SHA-256: 4a816b4ae78096bc10b62fad974c724ebc9fbc98f981f4b91508175a2de8b329
font_02_sfnt_off0001321c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1321C 10764 bytes
SHA-256: c73bc2c8de29080f0ee16fa909cb947f2d6c5726cb6df6c77937b533a507437c