Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6faa1da1fe5cbe9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2021-09-09 08:03:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 54fde75f87ae6007d3f2e91817c3b7dd SHA-1: 07bc0a5b7722dc6711e6076665f7217351e493c6 SHA-256: d6faa1da1fe5cbe9241e91d4dabae420a2575ba93a26c983ea65d7ed5aec0df9
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics suggest it functions as a password-protected archive lure, a common tactic to bypass gateway security by encrypting the actual payload. The embedded URLs point to various compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely serving as download locations for the concealed malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=open+password+protected+pdf+mac PDF link annotation
    • http://anais.terminarz.online/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/34335782903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f47db20513---sabepixelofofudobebirox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613979af66d69---37102148609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zekejozsef.eu/FCKfeltoltott/file/45607205263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impex-italia.it/userfiles/files/39469071632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901160831880875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202109file/2021090511570570554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topspeed4wd.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zaweruruzamibomego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebankcardservice.com/uploads/files/xavowegumomuvovofukupetef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourhandmadeitems.com/userfiles/file/zipuvul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613895ae657d6---sireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c673362e3---31110621521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://israel-aliya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72fa5ebe4b7e94a29c2ccf620d386636/gorirodikenewon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.com/ressource/site-image/files/65422690055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138387ed2c99---zigaxifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1453810120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f95f38e3ba6a990c721b312f1f116ca/36009472565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasaitogo.com/uploads/files/vafeduso.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_off0000cc4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC4A 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 44696553578106476e0e9803f02392f28a2dbff8f2093c85d0f2ef5790c7df6d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e520.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE520 18364 bytes
SHA-256: d1d2ad2fe57cb84a356a5330c9fb246b5bf3ab8473e94423d35e5d7f82e87d54
font_02_sfnt_off000113f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1