Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2104e4155347b1a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-06-10 15:03:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a44fc5a304fcfca19cb156c8347632ee SHA-1: 13f1e2e5ddbbd425347ec0e3d7a3b396c0fd1e0d SHA-256: 2104e4155347b1a92fcd834d96cd168016fc5b856ed4046419e8149b96305c62
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic indicates that the document likely provides instructions or a password to decrypt a payload, a common tactic for evading gateway security. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern suggests a phishing lure designed to deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+underground+2+ppsspp+android PDF link annotation
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a93d9920372c08762bd79f8bc83fd33f/70624244849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082a0a89cc5c---xaxifilugok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s87c3bcqqc38oh2u102ls5dk0c/fifukobidamega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778d2def0a4---40255446717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2c74095f7---1920399871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluebeakbranding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00150ea339d6f0e5a627be0c048e1d31/vemiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a4f9fc90a7---todaluxixaruzipufanelar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa3eeed55a184693fe66d457f62ca37b/fuzare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e2cc197425---60121465956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/54692063160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b51d7fbd83a---43296399495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premium-h.info/files/files/xodemunapirowewukunebit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ascensionchina.com/userfiles/file/1882869879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77cfce97fd0fb482edae101df834e596/lisuwexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/ruxisotal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e0a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A1 5348 bytes
SHA-256: 1f7cc53a8d9eab6456ba470ff0d6cf5744c0bf2267042fb8962a7c5147c11169
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FC 11164 bytes
SHA-256: a0b28cdc542a0b6c1382493f675a44b7aeaeb8be1d957c2c9a8e5b42cbe16372