Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a1c7ff70648a924…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 14:42:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 6741220691f396413e27764ea1b1b66d SHA-1: 407b4e9e043be0431a064c8b2605c2346eda784e SHA-256: 9a1c7ff70648a924e7ec43d38f43ff4887d2ca3e97d28987b3a008a46c25eef1
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, as indicated by the 'SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE' heuristic. It instructs the user to copy and paste content into a shell, which is a common technique to bypass security measures and execute malicious commands, likely to download a second-stage payload. The presence of numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9822

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
  • 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://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a2f6414ba---terowevapezijexigupenix.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/46705880770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msiutilities.biz/documents/8879486234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084fd4c35b38---8997209902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc3013b45d6---samemosoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a82b41da0ba---31973887657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fd561c3820---99253823923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/48303781592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6037262a5500aa8fc3a7ab1252c64c70/bugilerobekofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s8j3uu0p9prq6bb930vsqv0ns5/46807446083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dde1666346---23207118564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aynadakikemalizm.com/resimler/files/jitunadexanatikex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/23f75e36aec69bcfd69e49c7ced8cc60/sizuzupadapul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc480fee45da97d432f110b391571686/niveroxaxolamofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didocrosby.com/imagenes/file/65936162121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160981b302b121---lurekofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlanthealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18a878e067667cec75701af78d799de0/77404808797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbd73ed6d9c---bonefuwujomuparazet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asaptransfers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0g9ei3th3g0cld5uih8iphoo0/verijeguk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mj5asum6uibte2c2un9rd24vvi/6101397989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d310fc94b55---30350478681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c552272bbc---tinotagezakutebagitivaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acetuitioncentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b61aee37e62---39586801824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fbd33905d1---363123778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kgsqbocfst3gh0jmp8c9u8e92n/gujimetulatorunamezepazib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rosemonttherapy.health/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/inot9jrsgdpufrmdrpkmdpm1nu/77865530794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nnes2le6a26v7cbf62v0nqp4bn/75899209231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+cap+fps+on+rainbow+six+siegePDF 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_off0000fa9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA9F 10928 bytes
SHA-256: ad7a022953971e70a9244621ba53f7b97cf358b0c519491a4f75036824e20ed8
font_01_sfnt_off000113f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F2 17340 bytes
SHA-256: ba25fafa341a252879cae040bed7a855387f4694291b40ff0ae588f2b2720892
font_02_sfnt_off0001418d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1418D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1