Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56a7578fe8e194a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 09:11:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: d49ef9c5895f138cdb5a66e089531563 SHA-1: cca016f9a9de57f6e99268613965dbd7ac4fb860 SHA-256: 56a7578fe8e194a14046c859e27e37cf17446055ef5310f58d35c6efa51b7c65
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The critical heuristic 'SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE' indicates the document's intent to trick users into revealing sensitive recovery information. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, further supports a phishing or credential harvesting attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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 http://cathugo-yachts.de/res/wysiwyg/file/3074619969.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu/data/editorfile/81498678798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kortennis.co.kr/B/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwelakakojudovusolaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxonrt.hu/img/userfiles/files/32795388022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baptistfriends.org/media/kuwamepapibep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/sijivuxive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hstairan.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/wiremisizazuzitawopon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/doziduvute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87c72a6afdf051ad6f912b2cda6808b8/89317716717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roocenter.ru/upload/file/8221276556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sleepthai.com/piceditor/file/xasokodogagevatesavupusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plaschke-partner.com/uploaded/file/73479608808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coaching-jk-academic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juzena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terrietanaka.com/library/files/29983117274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncfc.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jodanofef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandiassociati.it/userfiles/file/xijufifakejesapimilutigad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkyidol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j0e5v6uvkqvu91av1qj8skpldc/37246332132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hycxchina.com/filespath/files/20210905002522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edmo-cars.nl/images/file/4313440039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613849f6992a4---menanubujuzegixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hawaiianhunareiki.it/file/xidujexivasiruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://henseltech.cz/userfiles/file/98168289691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeworldwide.com/multimedia/userfiles/file/faxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdientunhk.com/upload/files/musagigodoxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613707ebddfd9---tirix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bhhangkhong.com/upload/images/files/nimewukubovotatugaxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=where+the+apk+file+located+in+androidPDF 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_off0000e0a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A3 17896 bytes
SHA-256: 4f947b6366926c76d9bbbd1e1102f11459b8907eec591b78d08d7cc387a7b6fd
font_01_sfnt_off00010fd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD7 10632 bytes
SHA-256: b2180bf7d083b9f9e423f6a9f289588c046618d00adb943712f9888c04ff65d7
font_02_sfnt_off00012819.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12819 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1