Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c4573bac56cca82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-10-12 10:50:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: a66aad301597abbb69cd5ac53a82c2ad SHA-1: 736a7ad5b2aab9fb7e305e28a236d21921ff8f1c SHA-256: 4c4573bac56cca82f7ebd7e73d1626f98c84756c7426a153decc468606391326
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and a link farm pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure. The 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic strongly suggests that the document's primary purpose is to trick the user into downloading an encrypted payload, which is then expected to be opened with a provided password. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://josepholszowka.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jenifujitedavapenetuxumo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.uds-myanmar.com/image/upload/File/67153706689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambresisemploi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vagetoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/tixisokobone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cardealer-space.com/js/upload/files/rosemaburomukikirirusiram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evrokomplekt.ru/userfiles/file/xinelibodana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tion.hu/upload/file/lopogomulaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/34850254499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.penyembuhanholistikreiki.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138f40f91a53---kefolazagowokamezufekaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prana.video/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7hfs0re368d8knpk20rkb2okh/25813625974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machulski.com/public/file/57850000192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photou.cc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tivolufimobogomutajol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminencesolutions.in/resources/userfiles/file/retalag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aicpwdosaeast.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13471564974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/zaxoduzidapumerurofanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151f212e068c---dopupetozamos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladachess.ru/userfiles/file/61365577589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jszl-rolls.com/filespath/files/20210918232857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/10813383055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dobokisedolafubet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatimaartwork.com/userfiles/file/24229854216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ortopediaszombathely.hu/editor_up/81265534550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/viwego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/5bhJmFgkeCE/uplcv?utm_term=passive+voice+and+active+voice+worksheetPDF 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_off0000d4c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4C3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECDA 10664 bytes
SHA-256: b33bf1f2a3e9aa2c97a093ac65dfd6213d1dfb57db74d1c455d0cc4af06d8302
font_02_sfnt_off00010555.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10555 18448 bytes
SHA-256: 49242f4a39d8f665d214413d528a769727cde4562a95516edeff8699c1f84a97