Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9ece6d0fe193943…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.1 KB Created: 2021-07-25 23:43:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b55a540750187d94ddf7e3455a579202 SHA-1: 797b2dcccf103b31896be11b7ceeece8d0508ad5 SHA-256: c9ece6d0fe1939435a07fcb42b73189b0c53b3cacdf388f8958a85f8f53d1702
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 CMS uploads to disguise malicious links. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to download an archive, providing a password to bypass security scanning. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 http://salonlomi.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786dd0a3a6f---tikadenelenuxomirorata.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/tajuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/56409893449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charterfori.ir/basefile/charterforiir/files/rizidifaziwafuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tek99noanrsqat4dh9vnai5bqn/19596531221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5f6ka0gc2v7fgo6h7lep2mn8e/kurofon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082bf0b47a14---paxejobijakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciattella.net/images/file/17749697963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ainut.fi/userfiles/file/71819447177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/203ed97423d5ed9c9459c52fc6a30b89/jigigewamoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacongtudongbinhduong.com/upload/files/44333040283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cf28161fab---28597316489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/kerarobiwefonawatebukaval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/66167532059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aedfd0746e5241a4e3a142077ab12fb/nojojodikodutigezakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7e4f43da9---bamujogivunezafibelewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bursaceyizgelinlik.com/images_upload/files/69991891504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160babb6e79ef2---53331660022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fritz-fahrlaender.ch/download/1686144825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stuarteisbrucklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/befonuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://career-id.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rulejidalisiwumeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/579eb9cfcdff199181d2ffac37b0e0b5/94344640543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwferrellpkwy.com/uploads/files/pojedemawotomuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchtextile.com/userfiles/file/58067336205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607faac309eba---vozetutamuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=richmond+electric+tankless+water+heater+troubleshootingPDF 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_off000126b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126B4 16856 bytes
SHA-256: 489935cb468a63aed347baea73b433000078b6d18fb420b62d219fb6f1cbad39
font_01_sfnt_off00015294.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15294 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 2ba77ecaea2f36b3a4434a2b06ae7cd30892d4744c0dbc7b7600cc9803c912c5
font_02_sfnt_off00016cbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16CBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1