Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ecf7caa2ceb2999…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.8 KB Created: 2021-05-10 14:32:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0eb52bcc5496bbeaf2b9ddddb77b4c65 SHA-1: db858054fec9d28a76584123b2067f20ef895a13 SHA-256: 6ecf7caa2ceb2999c1de34781b5b9c9086669719e21a120f9f1944f15ce33b70
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.007 JavaScript T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document exhibits malicious characteristics, including a high ML classifier score and ClamAV detection as a phishing trojan. The heuristic 'SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to copy and paste content into a command-line interface, a common tactic for executing downloaded payloads. Several URLs point to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a distribution mechanism for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • 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.
  • 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://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609219d032249---bitazobetevijanogadap.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f0d0293fb---47592871296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ffae48feaa---nuwiwiberedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c77458d370e6059ed92cce2eb904a24/90301739112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/522a20cd4bea03531c01290e0ea8c9c0/sinusidalajupiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b17d6951a8---74023046630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160771ddc2dc50---11154841969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/33655759265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/75288286813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpforbusymums.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93509a4c558b91782cdef7cd2716885e/jexawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25009d68f8dd38803019e9b4e97e5a06/furamiwivip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090a53dda73c---87322839959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/8394509234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48c5e906b75fdc9b8f17cbf556394bdd/movavogevatemigomozakuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/069f832f496e7602776184ca08e83edc/29345808687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c316c466fa---pukitedawod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7kb5b66m3t4tq4c4s3cabtqv17/68454066724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=android+emulator+internet+connection+not+workingPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off00013b65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B65 5224 bytes
SHA-256: 9b6c6ee748f4a17daf9965be70305c778788d8ad810a763edcfef40828393c7a
font_01_sfnt_off00014d23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D23 11580 bytes
SHA-256: ba3f853ac643a273772149cd13ee975168cb4ee9c501377706a0b8893c5efa7b
font_02_sfnt_off000174dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x174DD 16420 bytes
SHA-256: 7ee38ba7b0a7ecfe71ef141f63cdf681c0ed7978b399606ba6da83ebec36b882