Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 493773ae8ec0874a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.3 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:22:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 729ea1a47913432a70e20f5061fda832 SHA-1: 9b9b4760ee7c737e1efb92daa63669e9e58ae139 SHA-256: 493773ae8ec0874a641f2ac4c3c25bca6a3edff0ea933d6d63f115f2e560afda
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive. The document's structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to deliver a secondary payload, possibly via a password-protected file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9954

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://esvigo.com/upload/files/99693543759.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://raegcafe.com/uploads/files/gademisawabub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/43121590143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7c518aafd---lamaxagixamumavupajoxanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43534f70d12c70618546a50672561360/zenizejoruwuwelakenot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/95836327628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenmongdangquang.com/upload/files/nekufapademotegavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9c736034b---jiloxerolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atel-j.nl/uploads/files/67350522898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/73588187126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jilosedesivowafiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2acb187e516c47a1f62cf913bf26fb5b/jelepana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newoptic.mn/uploads/files/9406540633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://augsburger-dartliga.de/uploads/file/salarelitunuzed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinwoosmc.com/userfiles/file/6911896609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebd0094e3ba7ce523a877c8a44da4358/rabisutolusirol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ea2f375905e10b496ea7fb704a61987/47024697247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e09190ad3b---4802138531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131bad9e4d00---tanuxabefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lignumweb.com/site/webroot/uploads/files/mofevorubodebeluxuvawixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hawkseyetravels.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29994338340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/13125979253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=candela+gentleyag+service+manualPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d64d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD64D 22668 bytes
SHA-256: ee897d06191f0794589820d42a37044804d0155a28a05434c85b05de79017f9a
font_01_sfnt_off0001105a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1105A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001286b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1286B 16244 bytes
SHA-256: fddcbe21bdf9fb2753729b4ab5b26d7a3fbb01e3fe51d41ab0725360e25c189d
font_03_sfnt_off00013e5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E5A 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 7b0ec649ce3b7d251e28ce0c7278d80dd1288ec98c1fdb9d156be66b24fc2b23