Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ed84bff560e65d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:06:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 7639a2fdb84dc4498a4895cdc1dd7caf SHA-1: e55f474f8ab5204b292b342c32b854ac8ad40134 SHA-256: 2ed84bff560e65d34c455fd044b187c6da7e0dbb60f8b6c2bc5fbe8e5390a555
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates that the document may be instructing the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway scanning. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports the malicious nature of the file.

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 http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a26b997991---powotopoxugi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613efe805f309---81474426647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fdf7437817---22680683547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tomoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jamekomuxowitodadusexof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hejia-ele.net/upload/85166135746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvmdigital.gr/files/files/38763454618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b46ec17d8---67352585126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prestinieurope.com/userfiles/files/tijegojexivofebufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thailaundry.com/imgUpload/files/mutisanofutoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giftboxvietthuy.com/upload/ck/files/mogenerar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/lepuvawumiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internet-trade.eu/UserFiles/file/32906114561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spprp.pl/userfiles/file/4098785556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostfoundglobal.com/userfiles/file/25624100337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texinpack.com/uploadfile/file///2021090407141888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338d2a4a0d5---vibojubarodutebinijuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kajo-frings.de/userfiles/file/tazinefawenefor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132feddca2aa---50987483997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historico.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43149005434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/sirofenogufexivesob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edouardweil.com/userfiles/file/zadelidumukigenata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efc88a8255956ed342b4af555590e8f0/46362579742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leasebridge.com/CKUPimg/files/8706203237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+signal+processingPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ba7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA7E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d290.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD290 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 7c36b352fc95eec32aef99609fe7f9dba8dd1e4f529c63169e4102fe18563006
font_02_sfnt_off0000feeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEEB 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 259fde6b63b0f2b4e72710553330634477092edba88528a1e2076eec5c65b189