Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 260dfb911369ef56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.5 KB Created: 2021-07-01 19:59:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 502e10f5f88d8412bc9cd83a312a4645 SHA-1: 549de584d458ed95d2bb4b30f52ba2e4fd1c006f SHA-256: 260dfb911369ef5609e93a1748687c2ea255806e71d09c46dbf4be84a17677c2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress sites, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and the 'Password-protected archive handoff' rule suggest the document is designed to trick users into downloading further malicious payloads, possibly by providing decryption instructions for an archive.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9936

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=structural+analysis+5th+edition+pdf
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dbe26415f1---wonisikepaxusewarigopu.pdf
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da9748d6575---32474205184.pdf
    • https://getadoc.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61575309120.pdf
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10a017d0960165478cabc0f427f051b7/xixezepapamaki.pdf
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce0a87b48d9---38429599232.pdf
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095813b182b8---30695651744.pdf
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af07e105c77d3166b9143ea8545bced8/73932736634.pdf
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/jipoxosugosutixuzotowuj.pdf
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d49879a41---48090758229.pdf
    • https://fullmagicweekend.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/besavofitis.pdf
    • http://cartopack.com/Images/file/14799810966.pdf
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081480202c55---72956627299.pdf
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b6disgpghckdb4dfhab24ld2b1/99550651012.pdf
    • https://kawanmto.com/contents//files/53146751206.pdf
    • http://lysfyyy.com/upload/files/zurosaji.pdf
    • https://europawindow.com/app/webroot/img/main_content/files/27459439037.pdf
    • https://www.ptlittleflower.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k2agquvv1o4vn3uubn1ccvclfd/59393006296.pdf
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c419ae65d6981da11139d4d2969c4d14/sularobokafigopo.pdf
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e71089bb8c---tojipelu.pdf
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075681ac2564---vodadomapa.pdf
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070ceb479a41---ganotobat.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_003_off0001091b.bin
dd74f70c39d24fe3271f8a16c5917cf616d628306a313a9d4e328026cbe5613c
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1091B 20388 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef1e.bin
1d6d271daa40f4d14d7cadd9c33430236ae91167e732946e5190d7e8bb86df34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF1E 11140 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b5d.bin
d5f16f55e949997921d32f5b8ae00e9e209692cc7135eeaea6eefd37b68d44ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B5D 17176 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00015835.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15835 16792 bytes