Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c2ca25211803264…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 11:53:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 785cf5fb74eb27de07ebcd1fc451e1c1 SHA-1: 2e5820ccba1c2c7eb68d9cc5b92800f32bb79141 SHA-256: 4c2ca25211803264d77f5f318229405737d2c1e38e54dbc9126592a9983613e0
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including a link farm on potentially compromised or disposable hosting and a high ML classifier score. The presence of a 'password-protected archive lure' heuristic strongly suggests the document is designed to trick the user into downloading a password-protected file, likely containing a malicious payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9867

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://preiswerte-unterkunft-papenburg.de/mediapool/67734813922.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/gixaduvinivigiwilikotore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pieseautocomenzi.ro/userfiles/file/45330672479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swatimishra.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/75434924406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drcleancenter.com/uploads/files/202109130220272823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domgr11.ru/uploads/files/fekexuberavudupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mimonewujufupalepebulelav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/fedotuluvemowevipudimodam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpes-de-haute-provence.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53298952157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathyknightwaite.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92911543518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/pugaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbu.vn/Images_upload/files/zejubujuxizavalipipugof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gionggiacam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/risarodofegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbkf.org/files/files/losigorabuzeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tosirutebepojenofos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vallejardin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c769647e589eba75c5102a59077afffc/76665654014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e085ea609---zulexanuzef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kesifveotesi.com/files/babojudujuwomobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60d6ee7ff0b4b4062df4cd5e61425860/vesed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satellietgroep.nl/userfiles/files/jizijidib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs/files/vujiwopexegasufulutax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofantino.it/userfiles/files/fawaxetalanisimatekap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onecre.com/images/content/files/16619874038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hsbofmn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63905864982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gnatowski.pl/attachments/file/5796496987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pikhospital.com/ck_uploads/uploads/files/66802455012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miryangpension.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_953883281473D7AE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=mcdougal+littell+physical+science+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_off00011b40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B40 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00013357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13357 11004 bytes
SHA-256: 7f40c634e725e514116c240f609caf2331d373f28e4bf5019f0c1bb1d836a4dc
font_02_sfnt_off00014cb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14CB3 22016 bytes
SHA-256: 547736bc1d4a9a9fb5bb250e7426ba78db98a315d76c2cd71248a365d5919052