Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 231312beace6890b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

211.6 KB Created: 2021-07-05 03:45:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: a2de5d0d558063a6cd0ee5eca9bcf229 SHA-1: 30b796a5908098dfee3a2a7fd890cec220944c53 SHA-256: 231312beace6890b9eb6af43e78b9276972ad1ba4e02417965068004de2821bb
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically using an SEO redirector to disguise a download link for a 'free PDF to Excel OCR' tool. The presence of multiple links pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate malicious intent. The document likely serves as a delivery mechanism for a second-stage payload, potentially an archive requiring a password as suggested by the 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9866

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
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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.
  • 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://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd72208ec8---piwupedefisogosopubar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.mii.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0fa2b4b1b17abe1ca8877f6d6648606/dabusazitazasipidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaikaland.hu/upload/file/16704965376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6a6c420e2---38425668240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1buccdou4sd1eo27mtrkuqltb/padovulukawurirunomatuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90ad5ackt1d.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9ba1329db4abd6256f75d78168c0f21/81043726947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/ragumuximobirevew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mnogonomerov.ru/uploads/file/73914779706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/febuxelolowazuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19c1511394e9887ce9f4243d2bac6802/77344865208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatminhtrading.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/41978791700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f8bf1f7a4564f79318ea6bd4a5540b9/64955771355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/212f26b6d16cc6aed7235ed30e7cdb40/jipax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/81265189492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3ce73b1e81---bexalatapekewikigumizib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160985c97e6eca---teviwabigebafomipekir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.playerclub.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc8bddd28d9---lebutigimowatemipope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dui-antidote.net/images/userfiles/file/navanijixalesukipirez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferropula.hr/files/1652407298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/84766482759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6e9tn5lhdoat6cpjkugi6d5uf/53107719522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae84aee8124---17130077617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=free+pdf+to+excel+ocrPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0002cd16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2CD16 10164 bytes
SHA-256: b008fa64d8fd3e0ddbbd062ee0ccd26b41cfecb15673816bd82af3d4c58f8aae
font_01_sfnt_off0002e3ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2E3ED 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0002fbfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2FBFE 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 74ea40c6abafff908ba0a862ebf25ee1d47d31f530ca964bdc695191fb21b084
font_03_sfnt_off00031152.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x31152 17676 bytes
SHA-256: cd6d0d44e984c788297360727bbd2b1fc6587f3a0877cf21a3b06bd1a2244e0b