Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9ee152afea35a43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 21:07:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2b7f3da3793bd3af924b3019900c0cbd SHA-1: 9cae6de2f60fd24c98ea9e2a257b021a031bb6db SHA-256: c9ee152afea35a43194399142e29c93932ffe11512c06e1cfb173a77f12d49ac
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to download a password-protected archive, a common tactic to evade gateway scanning. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://ustunongel.com/image/files/19103444787.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://boschvietnam.vn/files/usersfiles/files/gosetifatifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodispirito.it/userfiles/file/duvuwegosunofudufari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanvexe.vn/webroot/img/files/gozigofowurasemobenol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dp-engineers.com/admin/userfiles/file/wofipivufuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourwebcenter.com/files/file/1418751330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gretajensen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14977305445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f432553fea---xumefaduzetis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nceed.kr/pds/userfiles/files/20211360876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themetamorphoseprogram.com/userfiles/file/36401247493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siciny.pl/userfiles/file/fezoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f9c1c4cdf0---gizononujimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abyway.lv/images/ck_images/files/woxorowobabuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d539fe7f24ea1f321bfbb593dee2c28/82092154551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arvikabc.com/images/uploadedimages/file/movetumikaxetivemimuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://garraldaarquitectura.com/garralda_userfiles/files/52509261425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gitialiganjlko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95491931310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opt-russtd.ru/data_center/upload_pictures/file/27568215877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://strongpointmarketing.net/userfiles/file/81263370403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://detmers-kontejner.hr/files/tasesesokoxexivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harringtonandlombardi.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/42869348011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68654964195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/12838988348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=como+descobrir+senha+do+wifi+pelo+celular+androidPDF 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_off0000d99f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD99F 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 2f05e6805f93d80c270649ebc17356a940ed4c9db64fc0054179c578d5816a72
font_01_sfnt_off0000f344.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF344 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B56 20248 bytes
SHA-256: 058a444c283ac5234d5c878ae8fa2a3ea18c57823c166c92607b6a37a1042f67