Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 331ff4ba6ceec050…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 15:59:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 888ffe8a97d4858c59e8ecb94689c929 SHA-1: 6f8c208bf688893b8e8cc52024f081ac2e7e7cab SHA-256: 331ff4ba6ceec050bec6e2a0bf0ba6175b2fbb6a53e95ef52d0babf77a9c07a2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage, a common technique for hosting malicious files. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a method used to evade initial security scans.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://phoiinnhiet.com/images/uploads/files/64614013750.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://intersensor.ro/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/83923072605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domusanna.it/userfiles/files/87114966277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cantinachitarra.it/userfiles/file/87854597473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecostationery.com/files/file/14662401553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hosotte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81948730458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088f00c67e34---9986434315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hauptsache.cc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607630cd4cd1f---50463995266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac6def9c948---sagovenofiwowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b61ef242405---425019932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtoarka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c050b523824947cb68d0cb6bbf0d58a9/23363423758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210629_E54BD7F0DDAD04BB.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dddf5094072---gaxuvabeved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushibelovo.ru/files/gazakedimoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hightechrustremovers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5ca02ee668---watotukaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/24580800283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea7366d4961595f669f87b7fa56638d8/55145294835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jensbrode.de/files/file/7267207558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087466ceb7d2---66235417826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dongamold.com/fckeditor/upload_files/file/78761291206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16129a6600dc0c---7531985237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aegk5qoa2e45c2uhqrsbja74jg/zamoxekozajasapubera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f6a056e85db8b3c06d83badf0df150f/tazam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-winstal.pl/userfiles/file/gisuzebexawabugijoradavez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=hilti+hit+re+500+v3+technical+data+sheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000d934.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD934 19312 bytes
SHA-256: 6764263283cd625fb61f69dab8d712320f110ff988fbbbe8ff83fdea9eb2401c
font_01_sfnt_off00010c74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001248b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1248B 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 4359085e118f2969c26edb9cefa0d0827cf957bf4c2b4d0af50d5666d8c643ca