Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f78dd33e9051357…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-09-09 17:19:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 044be40da79cf93bc726759b1d668a61 SHA-1: 4cdb834bfd99eba67e6eb5ddf50a448efc624a17 SHA-256: 4f78dd33e90513576fdc63082252c75d84939fa271a621fe62ba0688b53e1ed6
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, employing a link farm hosted on disposable domains to direct users to potentially malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs users to decrypt or access a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The presence of numerous external URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9922

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=face+unlock+android+11
    • https://hv2barrier.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12518885263.pdf
    • http://mikllc.mn/uploads/files/61573595411.pdf
    • https://annekienlen.fr/imagesfile/lowubof.pdf
    • http://www.caslyn.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e54c2e2c2---14672564432.pdf
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8032c2b9f4f662847a09fd9fb8573fb/tekizasuninudu.pdf
    • https://apz-arte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nagidilidivonojamiror.pdf
    • https://polymadeniyaglar.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/romuleduwaburuzovak.pdf
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b9a42f6e4---80358258739.pdf
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137aeb8d7a79---95487819389.pdf
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e8fb5b60b---fufamikifefupusilamabano.pdf
    • https://cobrawire.com/userfiles/files/sigejunebon.pdf
    • https://magicdiscoradio.com/userfiles/file/37220617562.pdf
    • http://investinwielkopolska.pl/application/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lebapunoweruje.pdf
    • https://jnvhardoi.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36517437234.pdf
    • http://sunil.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/sifizoxoju.pdf
    • http://minerva-collection.net/files/files/59306350616.pdf
    • http://atmaircenter.com/lb/userfiles/files/betalefizofegil.pdf
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/62510383466.pdf
    • http://mixmarketing.vn/upload/fck/file/88358865090.pdf
    • http://smeeing.com/userfiles/files/49865338548.pdf
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/4915778809.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d369.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD369 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb76.bin
228445a3744f13af4bf84041e55802a923554d86926eb0745489ea117e4ab105
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB76 1888 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f43a.bin
197c7887f31293e14ae6b01b37e937fc79348be5a046e06ba74779e49d452991
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF43A 16632 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00010bd3.bin
6c0d9019cb7db180a6c8a44577d69338009bbd1a49ba944d9002922bcdd4c786
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BD3 10316 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off0001231f.bin
77f223ba91b5b7496e3a7a19df5ce4a9d36f9840a07e7b051ae1d58fc9181dcd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1231F 24420 bytes