Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f51f047406c3002…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-06 23:19:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a5fd1a152f767dcc0e05a1966a23ef0e SHA-1: 1f24e70a46285327211b886d9532627d5f042a93 SHA-256: 2f51f047406c30028ba5de299df08c73e7a70d169f9dae7d3885446d736295f5
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' suggests the document instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to evade gateway scanning. Numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting were extracted, likely serving as download locations for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rfid+based+attendance+system+using+arduino+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://artanuji.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pesilasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannerfeltdesignteam.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93942641252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/5593952173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c78435e1b31---gudonatagurewowaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16c9c4c43f---fizod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bffe839c8621a41c53bc7d0e153e2c2/30303115767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urjabatteries.in/userfiles/file/1662863252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bade7b6efc7---jumimagoniratezebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilayunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31247180701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1ca0f98e6a91758b0e32125c7649bb4/kumimogarawepamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29373a1c6859be4b805c717be49a4193/91167348657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.expo-hotel.com/english/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160732d9935204---mugebapobipipozezarer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c697ae5b071b135d9ec25d6b5a09045/wajosukesajowidadajejof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160898b451deb7---61613637549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yksskj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mipirojig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-10/20210610124451984586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aafc73f04a9---78196096057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b401d387eee---vexilibajelobuvogigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aykutemlak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/bejefam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wirheiraten.de/images/file/3330264503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonvoyageindia.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wowixomuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/4512884113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b179156a47---32024464500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609899344772b---99549117310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d533.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD533 18460 bytes
SHA-256: b5b16042a129d5c39561c3e65f90b9f2ca75e987b8221878fe92e28b9db412d2
font_01_sfnt_off000104f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104F8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011d0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D0F 11316 bytes
SHA-256: afd9b6995eb115f8c1f1ee0715d445627f928258679852122e5e178c42d361d6