Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec9f296f0d021132…

MALICIOUS

PDF

148.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 08:59:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 2f3bd3e95fd50c974a3382c1d1aea882 SHA-1: e3caeb6a2a6c3f1e55522c56ea8541ec35638a10 SHA-256: ec9f296f0d0211323d83a8d69384aaaf257a094ead8cd0651a51c1fa421f3c5c
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The document exhibits multiple high-risk lures, specifically impersonating cloud document services and requesting recovery secrets or passwords for archives. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to phish for sensitive information. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9761

Heuristics 8

  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://artedeeducar.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rigefofomedewisu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://robertfeinberglaw.com/images/edit_images/file/dowobuguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160902a45c333b---xavuzotidudipeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parcroyale.hk/userfiles/14078119647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/files/45127929822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyetracking.pl/userfiles/file/93476171233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desagresbrts.com/clients/34568/File/45355039041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eot.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/10028386214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorinhawear.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/fiziwapegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/dilerenujunudavoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/57290164716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a105386b09d---74601938936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupoaccs.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raxodovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isemya.by/modules/ariol/static/ariol/ckfinder/files/49396098226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/wujovutoxilibijujosaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c877a2cf20b---jitobidatabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vantainoidia.vn/ci/userfiles/files/juvojavofokoburaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easyliveconstruction.com/ci/userfiles/files/depatatuzirigipokepaxezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hizlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nopubaziwivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaukiaplinka.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bigozewozozotenelozus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fattyweng.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9abac842a7---jilasewopiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homesunshinepharma.com/upload/files/gapokegaxudojaxuvesilosob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/vokupinidupazifewos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://people11people.com/uploads/File/35059371042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cb2808c4fb4ccf8511ca7575b9a6332/94300130417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c1fda76c88---97933087938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=rotate+pdf+pagesPDF 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_off0001e4df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E4DF 18380 bytes
SHA-256: 96f018989e02ba11ec585e0e40269dd25a23d5d62c368519ba9efe35c4f774f6
font_01_sfnt_off000214f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x214F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00022d07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x22D07 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 361d9e71dd2ca8591054241fc6ca2a13a920b4efb53cf80cb759fcb1c4ef1029