Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dac225dc134c16e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 01:52:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: cff22ddd05c024e3ec3b6af30c4ca3ab SHA-1: 7f4053c3dee510f1c82edef029253c1909648e9f SHA-256: 9dac225dc134c16e767bc25d89b502421173a86409b922b611001111a9516bec
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 heuristics related to link farms and compromised CMS uploads suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic strongly implies that the PDF's purpose is to trick the user into decrypting and accessing a secondary payload, likely a downloader or exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+fillable+form+online+free
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210510043631.pdf
    • http://hoteldarim.ir/basefile/hoteldarimir/files/rifaletadalilelexubav.pdf
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a81c1baf279---60255333618.pdf
    • http://change4best.ru/upload/file/91423515040.pdf
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/zokugalusin.pdf
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c8f6427063---poluvipamikuxabizidoxa.pdf
    • http://baihsad.com/userfiles/files/20210719_205733.pdf
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce31570ce620222c194667feac14c921/95099931606.pdf
    • http://www.assignproject.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088c9e27a525---62390117205.pdf
    • https://artenika.pl/fck/file/vemefavizexe.pdf
    • https://sealskinz.ru/files/file/davekisuxorexoxepifobe.pdf
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46d0de8a50---13020786122.pdf
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ccc3443bf608409696f4f3023122c5fe/sitizewuvirokutujovi.pdf
    • http://famillespourstarlight.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/gimimomarozubul.pdf
    • http://mirai-kankyo.com/userfiles/files/sisekagavumosinekowoja.pdf
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f14695fb17---zimokuxusojalekolex.pdf
    • http://legalinet.eu/userfiles/files/rukovowoguxaxudoto.pdf
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89e16e9e54a47e8230f98f2339a5959f/xefub.pdf
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/50482116448.pdf
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813e04a6fca---20060090814.pdf
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612aeabf3ea9b---41139598096.pdf
    • http://retrievers.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75528419842.pdf
    • https://jerseyshorepirates.com/userfiles/files/17856692747.pdf
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/userfiles/files/23528765323.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c252.bin
b4eada8b4e6b695ca4c056bc8c7f90e7fe73552ed749b8c7ae76a75aa6409b7c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC252 17412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eef1.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEF1 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010708.bin
5c4d7b30ed929617efc31d2d8472725355bb52eb511f936ad0c42a8940d4781d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10708 10392 bytes