Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f6a20d22e44600a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 17:27:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9a7423384a3ed3de204697064ab8ba12 SHA-1: 5dac81049f59f423d726e956ccaa839c1222b09d SHA-256: 9f6a20d22e44600a61236b554b3e158ad9b3b4bb5e84df0994fac6191b2056e9
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, employing a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites to direct users to potentially malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' strongly suggests the document's intent is to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security gateways. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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
  • 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://www.xcelsus.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353e719cced---rexipapedofulazebinir.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thessalonikiflights.com/files/files/femobojewabeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f473216394508055667f8a7945ecb93b/92146116740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssaisarang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74970473060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e862ecaaa---dajelifatokuvopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iwayman.com/uploadfiles/file/210905000001627309tsml86.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76a3d6bb664e8b761ca1f3241ca75f0e/buwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/94315539497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baodieptailor.com/uploads/2021-09-11/images/files/18550192143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phongthuyphatloc.com/luutru/files/xudamopejine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/75414650896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cadeco.com/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/zibejufawutexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photopuzzle.net/userData/board/file/69663330408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exito-opakowania.pl/userfiles/file/54321351888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapalishakti.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bedusel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talk200.com/admin/admin/uploadfiles/file/biwazematudotowerim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://55pluscommunityspecialist.com/userfiles/files/4892986978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://100gastro.cz/soubory/files/diginageladuxoleninaderu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01545c3f2713dc7d5bcac4c1fe25b75e/70614648465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domplus.su/userfiles/files/rutikofunebidole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/fidotat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smarttechsolutionukltd.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/murilukepokatatepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealordhotels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nerutubobezulebevafukova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chayka-svg.ru/files/nofadowebijobonixuvavopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esebtekstil.com/resimler/files/94003823378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=light+novel+epub+appPDF 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_off0000f6df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010ef1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EF1 19656 bytes
SHA-256: c93c2cb2cd9c735f499c27caeece622712e11cdde97918a8bd35d8784308708d
font_02_sfnt_off00014295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14295 10528 bytes
SHA-256: ffaf215b7a38dedf2214abaf0aeac4bc33838be87182bb1a172f7725dbb166a0