Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04468bdbbfa160a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 05:05:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 67807a5f9865e8e65398fe9380a30a5c SHA-1: 670f585979c68b71ad619f1acbc58c16dd13dee7 SHA-256: 04468bdbbfa160a32324cb83f5250d8782c2b2330c00d6bd98b1c1aa2700707b
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosts, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive, likely to evade initial security scanning. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://gesht.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15434251018.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vmgeducationtrust.org/home/vmgedu/public_html/public/userfiles/file/bikobilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digiconelectronics.com/media/nuwulefudalufexowuziseba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96332660672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laboratorioshamalab.com/userfiles/file/vejogevulugebebaxidilugof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintmaster.hu/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6647815455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.org/contents/files/95126512772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mots.alaxarxa.cat/cmsimple/images/file/xagokukezujot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hargagila.com/uploads/image/files/tujipexotufodapufaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a566c4057f92c2b4a69aa9f0af48e6c/7934431515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togul.org/sites/default/files/file/42882195330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613edb130fe8c---piresuwuwiruxefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceresasrl.it/userfiles/files/17228905673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/files/96089831374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/34090509489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/puraxuxaweziwotovofowiguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/16677794592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://affordans.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fobufomunipujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7a24cc4277df3e67e331757f619bc71/3396647263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchoggianiepartners.it/userfiles/files/64872282737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tinhhoaxanh.vn/userfiles/file/rikuvesivelofomonef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tieuhocsongphuong.hoaiduc.edu.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75473170109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c84388227---jibore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=hack+mod+free+firePDF 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_off0000e0e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0E5 10304 bytes
SHA-256: b48269e2d53f52e00791d21f9f89b5fedd1f35c2eb2e61f7d7db747d65b9ea63
font_01_sfnt_off0000f812.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF812 19024 bytes
SHA-256: 384c4a0ba444e2dad5e6f54b6db835b8fd35bcbb254614f74635b3996ad4d1d9
font_02_sfnt_off000129f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129F9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1