Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5023ea3e9ec8461e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.2 KB Created: 2021-07-03 14:31:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 973be1fc78cc93126592baaf30ed6f52 SHA-1: cdfd035478925f4619d374ab8f53c4630987bd8b SHA-256: 5023ea3e9ec8461ef24111168aee9ca475f6d2e25233fc0058874bb9f5152762
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of a 'Password-Protected Archive Lure' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive, which is a common technique to bypass gateway security. Multiple embedded URLs point to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely serving as download locations for the next stage of the attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=author+of+dead+souls
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d06db6328f641510e96c01e9799cade/22451243917.pdf
    • http://ebslang.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/19959693983.pdf
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079a0eb5e5e7---fowonuroduni.pdf
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a661a01190a---xukogazawokar.pdf
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/27051792520.pdf
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160755234750d7---wetibisapuzevogulomawo.pdf
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c58ac86cc1922af77af1fbc6b31a526c/21509177702.pdf
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cfa0724afd---zaradakuzafiwopikule.pdf
    • http://kaplanpm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aeee682ad6---72143604537.pdf
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/77669445818.pdf
    • http://www.sparkprototypes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160724fc22b2c0---15559848110.pdf
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1607623795c00d---2271399219.pdf
    • http://ciccioinpentola.com/userfiles/files/vitotudaximidubeg.pdf
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab72894b8ff---dujedejigapenep.pdf
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fd7c0eb910---23203815928.pdf
    • https://arredamentigiacobbe.it/file/32788283371.pdf
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30119577e14b6334ecd0bfc5842cffca/71023661467.pdf
    • http://kurskodkb.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/9404834500.pdf
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb3ce02535---fabujago.pdf
    • http://hani-bee.com/userfiles/files/fanuzuriwigukuwedox.pdf
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/6073816229.pdf
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a454c00f538ba1108607b057f6454607/13717255736.pdf
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c0e357831---40488652886.pdf
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/wuxiwasilunu.pdf
    • https://q-web.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o2k8m4j5vucnms3t1h72devu5u/82948292099.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001393a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1393A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00015151.bin
4dd6f40208d6aa0d1d871c78ef93c407128bef8de793aa8dbe748a1c01bffdb2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15151 10336 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000168d2.bin
62029e4ecc2f74eb1b886bc07d56823d9899a34327383eb266bad2f2d5f677b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x168D2 19320 bytes