Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 386545d5fd24ab61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-07-06 16:07:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 28ffd20b34a715eee74b31f89e30db92 SHA-1: 82154eb737ffa768ad99dcdd26d4ae813d88b7e0 SHA-256: 386545d5fd24ab616f80bda57dbac67cb826719815008872db40561e713d5391
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The document's content, as indicated by the 'SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE' heuristic, is designed to solicit sensitive recovery information from users. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, further supports its role as a phishing or credential harvesting tool.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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://www.tonygssoulfood.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/255d086d68a41e03293e372736be968f/zajixuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://lemanssrl.it/file/pisaroluxiladumilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://araonline.hu/uploads/file/7835689023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7a5162bb3---tosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nosolodespedidas.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083a2cf1d28a---wixuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd885cae37a---walomadubakesedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amirep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7397ddb816e97692bd41177ade3bcf2c/65437499877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72e3f45778b2baa28d1479debca18ea5/44198406159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hyundaiokla.com/uploads/files/34926845313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanboo.cn/Uploads/file/2021051914163170554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1a3ff57b63088cd82a6bd421da55e9b/40167331084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhtuyenquang.com/home/maytinhtuy/domains/maytinhtuyenquang.com/public_html/images/file/24223420735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f899cab93---55809358378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.com/aym_image/files/31981980936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8fe27ba0b---dabetiromufugodazewuroma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogninja.com/userfiles/files/770937322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayanchem.com/d/files/86844926104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ih70gt5628114hvjk8vnrg9pj2/pawuzakunapijija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/wiwaxawotibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k16nudgpcec5unqmqqc91d4g76/99169942629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=ccna2+chapter+7+exam+answersPDF 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_off0000e911.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE911 16592 bytes
SHA-256: f31a22da65eaee1c1752e78fbb508cd45a96a1548d448ee5f350822a2ab4314f
font_01_sfnt_off00011450.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11450 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 57779196de839d10b276b11599fdce7e3d36d4129fcb57217591a0b0752e9342
font_02_sfnt_off00012d25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1