Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c760750a4ed6a14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 04:04:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 3ec20cfc442c49f0f7a001a51c7894ff SHA-1: 398377dde2fb272c8dabcfdc3ef208d669f75821 SHA-256: 1c760750a4ed6a14a73bf307d9a3cab1fab201420a53f192993ee4a3c0a41d46
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains numerous links to external sites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The 'SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE' heuristic indicates the document instructs the user to interact with the clipboard in a way that suggests executing commands, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+flash+twrp PDF link annotation
    • https://aptitudeclass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15132079522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lab4050.com/upload/editor/file/poweguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banderlogclub.ru/Files/file/mojukibuvomumiwixifapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baust.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lebaratafizazedexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fagulidagewijabesurodibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh4-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/tojekonav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cansuyu.org/resimler/files/welevikawokoroxuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalhousieretreat.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74556317507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gs-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/salesugudowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f6249a7523---muwumigitajole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubelessons.net/cms_images/file/36495556997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsultantrading.ae/userfiles/files/fezuxogimuzazubuvapim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alariel.be/userfiles/file/meminifokivemuromopek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilanatofishing.com/home/sandbox/domains/shelter.sandbox.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15182750975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cwpni.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/10238742596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/59020160979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youandisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65021387302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44cada170e742860634d2ebffe797814/85028888992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primax.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa0dne5tt9prao9cfgu91losq7/tukowitinasagadagobaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yule-sign.com/upload/editor/file/20210904053457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienchidan.org/uploads/files/24313902249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csodamalom.hu/files/files/41288664296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaparatt.com/images/File/78355950579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f31009c0bd0f46cc96b4934a5f5aacb5/47898034788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projekt-lesen.de/userfiles/file/lajaluloxoribafavegofod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e084.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE084 18444 bytes
SHA-256: ae0a3ed913934a3e940b4a44c51846f9aecc3eb44b5b6f5f122a17acd4169546
font_01_sfnt_off000110b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000128ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128CA 10204 bytes
SHA-256: d2be018a4e314f9ddc83a851276765f212fb6b9650b5aa2d5d63e5db4e39589d