Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c17046a4d3eaff94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 18:31:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4748384d9866de0ad08f45c774ec07d1 SHA-1: 2fa538d8938c523f64059da44572f95b9624cf0a SHA-256: c17046a4d3eaff94dda5a407b8db35e832834519b1984a30692ea3621353269d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm and a lure for a password-protected archive. The embedded URLs and the ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a second-stage payload. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=unlock+android+phone+password+without+factory+reset
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cf23d20bb1---31471450873.pdf
    • http://pphjako.pl/userfiles/file/36236740993.pdf
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/86960368434.pdf
    • http://kor-ra.ru/UserFiles/file/noxaxen.pdf
    • https://rougezenekar.hu/files/file/27680339330.pdf
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137aa0ccab04---sujojadokopo.pdf
    • http://coomargroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12952983580.pdf
    • https://fceresources.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wadaminoxaderuwoleb.pdf
    • http://apismorava.eu/docs/77680030923.pdf
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/95002788854.pdf
    • http://sanarina-coaching.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dusopibiminijewuna.pdf
    • http://eskuvoiiranytu.hu/blog/file/fedunovegopapofaz.pdf
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a4259155e---mujivikijogoriru.pdf
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82fb1600e96142c56a3152f413288939/77239338498.pdf
    • http://mvpbuilding.com/userfiles/file/53139805868.pdf
    • http://rowerowaszkola.pl/imgturysta/files/34882883068.pdf
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd29c5b81b9b96b259c20a431a09a68a/86996224977.pdf
    • http://cosyromania.com/media/file/67686804679.pdf
    • http://teamtrinity.net/trinitya/file/putujusifelinigasivepula.pdf
    • http://hasicimosnov.cz/foto/Image/file/jizolo.pdf
    • http://parcroyale.hk/userfiles/banasulegotawonituluri.pdf
    • http://architettoletiziamasciotta.eu/userfiles/files/35140314263.pdf
    • http://aotem.com/data/home/qxu1780220113/htdocs/uploadfile/files/40062331298.pdf
    • https://doctornhospital.com/banglanews24/editorsfiles/files/menasunujus.pdf
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7ecef4d6e04dd1e1e9b4dd041b1ff93/22387430563.pdf
    • http://servicedental.it/userfiles/files/soriforefuman.pdf
    • http://henghuitong.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210914091127.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_off0000cb12.bin
0991ad0f625140869d857167be44a9c587ba198d83f5ec36610921b7e1d0e837
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB12 17212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f787.bin
9d115bed54d6e39e2dd1f7aeb40ad37b662dd7178f3ad05f152363567a2cf730
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF787 11116 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001117d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1117D 16792 bytes