Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c69321cf54e88ef1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB Created: 2021-09-25 14:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8ef0cd7568a196a8ce18bf668d0e84f2 SHA-1: 25c472fdb4402ee1239dbc7f07d07299d96cd221 SHA-256: c69321cf54e88ef1044e2c2c55bf8dc48e537477e53fcb173c0d3e5992869442
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, including an image-only presentation and a click-outward action, as indicated by the 'PDF_IMAGE_LURE' heuristic. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a spearphishing attachment to deliver further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 1 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 67 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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=watch+avatar+full+movie PDF link annotation
    • https://rumahbaruku.com/contents/files/98959120851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appli-veolia.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26928286083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.darvidproperty.com/news/file/fanuzutevajedivije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pollackmihalyiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fisakok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tribo.kz/userfiles/File/mezeworibikedug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biroestarsa.hu/uploads/file/54132050740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161477b4d3fdad---maxaxadaboronak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shriayurvednagpur.org/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4186492863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precisao.net/files/files/5184656522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gelinyuanyi.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901233410800964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ietc-oman.com/userfiles/files/41285068226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eghamatyab.com/basefile/bainbookcom/files/27505928308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decorstore.eu/upload/file/73056370859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ls9gs2mg7ug5d1dqcptah0oj2/95224803970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zit-tech.com/userfiles/files/96980854734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/67079819323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csa.china-led.net/static/editor/ckeditor/ckfinder/upfile/files/5873932457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e0ba3361b---tugimegavuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/833061499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://restauraceeverest.cz/userfiles/file/81854378530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://symbioticlifetech.org/attfile/fckimg/file///2021090515332_579074187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://usssecuritate.ro/userfiles/file/57180789641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://navoloki.mebel18.com/uploads/files/67010205980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/78708c376afb3f2c5f3df2843dc070ad/nabuzobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000aec9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEC9 10488 bytes
SHA-256: feaf480330125cecbd477e20c74d819a0c14857ed6df18e2d8b97ba5d06d1c65
font_01_sfnt_off0000c6af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6AF 14496 bytes
SHA-256: ae70885349850e6123233e111c11f04cc521cce5e894573cf3ef86035e56ee86
font_02_sfnt_off0000ea92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1