Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9545bc0cde563dbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.2 KB Created: 2021-07-14 06:49:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 247e3c743a41bb7fdc3d64f5df264a28 SHA-1: 7f1dbc63642ad94dc40419cd530ed0891139cc15 SHA-256: 9545bc0cde563dbbeb55180266b55a7ae86d2ad62e21cf21ba56f5fb5ee52851
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on disposable domains, a common tactic for distributing malware. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a method to bypass gateway security. ClamAV also detected this file as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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 https://cdmsig.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/deligexezesewularetu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b460883e5a3---71708208425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abroadster.com/files/31326670382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buddingheights.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bc70baac6---gokavidogarona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82f8b518e6---50293772249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encoregallery.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f077ba2ede9cc70d8be80c734d3427a/kowesexebegirolutasel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triple-a.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28506516317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkalaris.com/contents//files/54738131148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d48d1df1b89ac660c5bdb4c482b5337b/gizonalasupirutebimek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/11508953281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81fb49fba5---motulexarenipuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7c0284d3fd---tixodete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moodyhighclassof70reunion.com/clients/2/24/24f6aee67edc386a60746049a176a33b/File/37515523010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccsgrhqq7hdirrdecha1gog315/wiwamugifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyderabadibiryanicorner.com/admin/images/file/32019305959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-inwest.eu/upload/file/musageriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e579c79777---71244482766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dgaspcsm.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/redakagege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db188441749---wakalotipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/87250856256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scdva70g08taa7g22cqqjlm406/jaliwizemobelikewobebaruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f5ea70c6b---xatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9c74c01333d416cd8055893bdb82d70/23956565817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=veterinary+reproduction+and+obstetrics+10th+edition+pdfPDF 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_off00011867.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11867 11168 bytes
SHA-256: 7f0b51cec1f2d43905f401ec98f7b797b07941acfe0afafada614e53ec31ee96
font_01_sfnt_off00013241.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13241 18476 bytes
SHA-256: cee7119747e3a6a23563792dfa282ad75582864c586b5ad9e3c3b68280b466ee
font_02_sfnt_off0001613d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1613D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1