Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d0e5fd6022fee98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-08-20 04:42:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 766bc0c20c25aa0e5c3bef49e5a8e6f7 SHA-1: 297d0634d87dfa6db6cd9c5c1065af33846550cc SHA-256: 1d0e5fd6022fee98ead01f8da0ca18328a18ab19257740c955b832d43cab332a
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of a 'password-protected archive handoff' heuristic strongly suggests the document is designed to trick the user into downloading an encrypted payload, likely a second-stage malware. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=leave+request+form+template+excel PDF link annotation
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc7dd5eaf11---tesulupavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saludocupacionalpso.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6bb967f5ad---veguwumawuvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95956a803a7afcaea02b13dd78d4138f/93029484771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hchoanglong.vn/userfiles/file/696544918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52fu35fb4aldu38aki1tdggo3j/4388974303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0694d7a41f0cef922a55ebad43ec362f/87277447732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kevinmcallisterlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/22843387290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ive-cal.it/file/5521814092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menu2uplus.com/images/file/996847961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springswellness.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607aadb961a27---37661291305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/talolotelolajemisoxemezij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1e9je63ovll9ah4lnh6uudefe/74971713796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/zupitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb4c727276---minosizadeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/56862934821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bde2e0ac14b---53279977530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofantino.it/userfiles/files/13426812513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/ladudaloxavepegajuzip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/49186790243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhouti.com/userfiles/file/83963595646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/45642696697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahsaipu.com/v15/Upload/file/2021572049309563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/54642312889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szsahsh.com/uploads/files/xejiwubutoxeket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/tunobunipib.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_off0000f1d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D8 10816 bytes
SHA-256: da28168b78bb9ad4895f7031bc53fd4c93d632d45778204393d9fe181155380d
font_01_sfnt_off00010ae8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AE8 17348 bytes
SHA-256: 4383da8409ee4c4b4c7c4d17a8bfc22f177a8a76b35a90ff9b5d8756fc45c3ec
font_02_sfnt_off00013836.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13836 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1