Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa6f67644dbf8f04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.7 KB Created: 2021-07-06 20:13:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: d2d061269cbf823dad501c002c0a4b05 SHA-1: ff61efe144bcefb6f08e64ecaaea966fb96aeaf2 SHA-256: fa6f67644dbf8f049d22f947dbc44555710a5bc793769d2689f67b9d2ed8a37c
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1059.001 PowerShell T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or spamming campaign. The 'SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE' heuristic indicates the document instructs users to interact with the clipboard and command-line interpreters, a common technique for executing malicious code. ClamAV also detected this file as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=periodicity+of+trig+functions PDF link annotation
    • https://visionbrindes.com/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/23811767425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/26422752250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/45818148740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c11184910b---52223798818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5djrh76o8hn2up22378ffvtjo1/17561151689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/rapumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/bigatujudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creatinglifeoptions.com/userfiles/files/25429510430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csodamalom.hu/files/files/2894431006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indacphuc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bh1pgbt3lchq9iegejle377o6c/juwuwojumovirumuvigomami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d20d30b0e---76108464460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a71fe42b67---luvusejotuwuveden.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-life.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071308468aa5---3339773225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbelmira.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/akagea8ggd5c2be46jahi98de0/pagiwozegajub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/59159468288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://useoneconvo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3c8cfd1f6fdcddd7ab34df8767ebadc/48315567860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gugiberelapexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubensova16.cz/files/file/37619416050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d029096b5fb98a758d721b3b17957402/wudeviro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogaleazzo.eu/userfiles/files/rofosuzar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelselection.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bcef4248599---bifurudofapozatabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160788951d95f7---7988620920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/73169515285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2b02f38db2694eda508d7a2579a8aa3/vuvazawoxofakowej.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_off0000c818.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC818 16600 bytes
SHA-256: a2cee1576fc3fa83e41b8010657153126576d0442032fa8661331503e79361d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000f368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF368 10660 bytes
SHA-256: 4dc787500971b224eff29e13a30033910caaf694840b8d83cfab21eafb74de3b
font_02_sfnt_off00010bca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BCA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1