Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c2ee5273f512192…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-07-16 13:17:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7a3e8d12e19ef8a0f23be60ddb10d25f SHA-1: 464fce6216c8d9d875d1b656e8d6e3879356f910 SHA-256: 8c2ee5273f51219202ddbaf6e172485df313046eef98fd8d316d143e091466e2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into downloading an encrypted payload, likely to bypass security filters. The numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories further support this, acting as a link farm to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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
  • 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 http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f89dfc1935---47247452783.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0157427cb2---sotogenikizavamof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/84735803657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acquadiqualita.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gozar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i9i56fuuejq1og8duhfav19veb/xaremexomip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zwickerfoto.hu/_user/file/waxavilipobogulekazukapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worksafeorg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6doe5c051p8ocm2sqfe14mv4s2/musaduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160caa918c7ce1---jewuwogodujuripofunuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fvv-hohenfelde.de/sites/default/files/files/xatasurumeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olmitek.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qh04si217f8pq5fbs05le2nsq3/gomevikupixez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e376986e503---18780189316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://new-baby.me/userfiles/file/87888631796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vaf9g1o5bpb1502cak4o3tnmg0/48962858466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcd1405f03007a4e5a36a2b88c4066f9/livujofuviveleweju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosewoodcity.org/nbloom/fckuploads/file/41382978601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrainski-rosyjski.pl/userfiles/file/vevixirixaruzeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d693b229e48be7da0a3b0e10abf5d8a3/61765286142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc-020.com/userfiles/file/20210621134822_2sdj06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pousadamarazul.tur.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083dd7b8c149---45288822093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/gokurep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kickcommerce.com/userfiles/file/vekejesap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607834c7d3145---39602697725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d6edec7c551---daxajufejimuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wujipacking.tw/upload/files/gezugulezive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=statistics+for+business+and+economics+14e+solutionPDF 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_off0000d550.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD550 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED67 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 5611194887a343ba7ab8b7fe2ed9a4e2a5d5d14b07a84768f40aa383062df47d
font_02_sfnt_off00010741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10741 17528 bytes
SHA-256: f1f6f0be3cc2ba086f580a22b6f08d64a8492dca15da53ba8394f32f5bee3ad6