Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 259abe09f5466075…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-26 10:59:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4eeef4ed89aedbbf8bba6f89bdeb94c3 SHA-1: fa1f494351e59273796277cb3fd3d185e3b2a154 SHA-256: 259abe09f546607527a15080d88bf599d10e10efbd02fdfa177317b9a8fe3028
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various external PDF files, some hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's purpose is to trick users into downloading password-protected archives, a common tactic to bypass gateway scanning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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
  • 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 http://straub-online.ch/userfiles/files/19450952117.pdf
    • http://apicn.net/upload/files/kepaxixerumimajesa.pdf
    • http://whipitleather.com/userfiles/file/rotaf.pdf
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/202191649105575.pdf
    • http://xn--80adic7alej3d.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/feremonenase.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131fa6aa6264---lemerab.pdf
    • https://yifff.se/userfiles/file/12363995274.pdf
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d6974849d7---jopijavubi.pdf
    • http://www.kotolantopeni.cz/files/98285341254.pdf
    • http://www.jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5585312277.pdf
    • https://t4g.nasscomfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qa2401jfs0v6eorfl07uc0ei93/bolamumobaduwilusasijifok.pdf
    • http://cycling-software.com/files/file/40496203.pdf
    • https://defrokatilai.lt/images/files/86690472050.pdf
    • https://drnanemilk.com/tctt/sites/aaa/file/7715842136.pdf
    • https://autoradiator.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/1118810452.pdf
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/84047414081.pdf
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/99567696065.pdf
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b74b1c8393---fibugeparak.pdf
    • https://cncunse.com/d/files/rugefux.pdf
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b8acfb4b8b---43980037696.pdf
    • http://www.fishandcosolicitors.com/uploads/files/38891367305.pdf
    • http://carsonpokebar.com/uploads/files/nijamumej.pdf
    • http://mlead.net/images/e/file/dirifoz.pdf
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/59672279857.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=free+fire+max+apk+pc
    • 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_off0000b246.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB246 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca58.bin
2b95c52fa0669a2a03814eb0daa3c76214d3c91f8046b9f52fdf7ca55bf49299
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA58 17044 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f58a.bin
b254bf2f52f219db8a4a109176e7bffd89c2494cfe1aa5c6de67501936138915
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF58A 10276 bytes