Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9c2d6ea9538eb24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 09:14:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 95a6e526ccc5c0a2df6c81edaf295595 SHA-1: 9d47f5041cd2f50bb6d2ae275f1a980c016e8b91 SHA-256: a9c2d6ea9538eb241a8d808075ae1c803a10cbdb3fc45b7af34d4827fcb0b14f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. A critical heuristic indicates the document attempts to lure the user into executing commands by instructing them to copy and paste content into a shell, likely to download and execute a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=html+email+mac
    • http://www.themixchange.com/userfiles/files/vinusu.pdf
    • https://bushregenerators.net/userfiles/files/89714418048.pdf
    • http://le-nora.com/userfiles/file/gijowumegubufesonine.pdf
    • http://intechsol.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614285135e34b---zivisepugudurikon.pdf
    • http://condosworld.com/abisol1/userfiles/files/83582677214.pdf
    • http://choinka4x4.org/cms/files/file/bepuv.pdf
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132ca9d3f218---66645398029.pdf
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35cc178c40ec5b2eddc8b580fcfd3537/47674943049.pdf
    • http://exactblue.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e817d4364---lekegifevug.pdf
    • http://imailbox.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/fupurabiziwereloregusopiv.pdf
    • http://ndc-group.ru/uploads/files/gumaxisuvalu.pdf
    • http://vikohasanfiber.com/upload/files/waxenisunekax.pdf
    • https://zhongzing.com/uploads/files/202109030310241557.pdf
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379cc083436---ginarobugigapuri.pdf
    • https://www.nvsrolko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69537347597.pdf
    • http://meghdoothsuzuki.com/uploads/pogabufivapibikasujel.pdf
    • http://traktorpulling.de/ablage/userfiles/files/ruliduvutubivon.pdf
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ca60b38bf---57722759688.pdf
    • http://www.jobsincrete.gr/images/_user_na/file/kafikimasexiwoluk.pdf
    • http://t-eamplus.de/web/editor/files/dusemuduxukewewozeleji.pdf
    • http://sz-nuoyi.com/Upload/file/2021090205494152936.pdf
    • https://yellowmangocafe.com/userfiles/file/75625009890.pdf
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161366d14495b8---gomoxes.pdf
    • http://tzsunup.com/upload/tuwotijawuvedowego.pdf
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141f4408239f---buzibenixajezed.pdf
    • http://bagodilovaspark.hu/userfiles/file/filewatumotosaxarujilu.pdf
    • http://managhantasala.net/mailuserfiles/file/divurikazuzasidezunigibeb.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_off0000dc4a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC4A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f460.bin
8e0a1f4d893d4f26bafb12ed34f2015a9d966f2f83a9a789ad589a128b797422
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF460 9892 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010a1d.bin
0980dc01f39b9fa76d601eb090850bc9864b5de972495ae941e3c7ddfba81bd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A1D 18068 bytes