Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 232ca7fb40d7f136…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 12:25:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8e556f70420bd6f04000d6ea277cef75 SHA-1: b9daba3e14cf74250e3fac7e19c83a7a86952d46 SHA-256: 232ca7fb40d7f136e486c8d1e99a41c6329bdfdd96f0e653f4332f0307b4c83a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The presence of numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' strongly indicates the document's purpose is to trick users into believing they are receiving a password for an archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security and deliver a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bella+renesmee+and+edward
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97abe08020cd472acb7a8717de1b5a74/54607560563.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9bd2d591d---5877865937.pdf
    • https://energooptima.hu/upload/File/55569664039.pdf
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb34141a93c8b3f60d5f1e734b228be0/3840528876.pdf
    • http://ge-mak.com/files/62554643429.pdf
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088b6893a0fb---zatukal.pdf
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb615239141---guxavaxejol.pdf
    • http://quangcaosms.org/media/ftp/file/jubolofewete.pdf
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c81722cdc1---womuxufujozalir.pdf
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73bd705b77---26058776213.pdf
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uutcppep9n0nrdj0cl9q8jd530/soralupemefitewux.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f741e0074---funudasimubumotitaravu.pdf
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607efecebaa22---25424125709.pdf
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/2011443239.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/laradexoxodoparuluvidum.pdf
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ae89ab94444549a9ef56b96db884f56/tidifuwokozunopevagewo.pdf
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ss5u7o3vaf2icbmu22dg0sgf1/kenikizowefo.pdf
    • http://arunimaflavours.com/userfiles/file/noralimelomos.pdf
    • http://banglatalkies.com/dynamic-images/cms/file/94001792302.pdf
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nr6s24i4fs0qsb4da7arjovpoc/xepolalurukivajuvidolavan.pdf
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af696322160---20553739253.pdf
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082638ff277c---xusurefapirezalovoli.pdf
    • https://ols.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2940fd6964135f32ed2d130295e0700/bubudaxagis.pdf
    • https://rinducm1.com/contents//files/zewaxavosidikaxaka.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000154a7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154A7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00016cb9.bin
a75f43afb897576cbc03ee54b850bd622207a14fb8f7541e888f7704fe535c20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16CB9 18168 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00019ae8.bin
62fc9e60a3cfa3b5c11516786a33b429aca07864fb0a897a1fb2066cb3cabc64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19AE8 10240 bytes