Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 677b8256c88f462d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 22:11:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: fec79dac4580a73223b981aa67c5128f SHA-1: e06efc89560e9cad34d02803a635012a75deecbd SHA-256: 677b8256c88f462da540c7bc26886b09681110636a451b26c61680692164ea78
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical alert for 'SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE', indicating it prompts users for sensitive recovery information. The ML classifier also assigned a high probability of maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites suggests a phishing or credential harvesting attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://ongxoanhdpe.vn/upload/files/94832005207.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hpx.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1cebcebdae1aff34c40f45724591ffd9/totisowux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smwebtechnology.com/arishayurveda.com/userfiles/file/19518656019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leinerpakgelatine.com/survey/userfiles/files/negitivomazinamipavevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calson.garment-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zizorerubojuzebulifib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckfinder.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/limevakovenukibusigowon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ba82b95ea5---vumibibigosilebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/wobalesiredigiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amartzon.store/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0c862032238263f5a1ff049198c9c0c/purexasadoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanyangsteel.com/files/fckeditor/file/740351148613a84384fa6c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leeharringtonhomes.com/userfiles/file/4394514647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanantamhcm.com/uploads/files/ruxukedebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contextuae.com/resimler/files/nugovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vbond.hk/editor_upload/file/50476844642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actor-conseil.com/files/file/91988254589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161371f4cd6b6a---25612083203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontierexim.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rqudjrpdhkt2dodhtqkk6vllmo/gizakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motoralbini.it/files/file/15529518427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.highettmetal.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32717579524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joinvita.com/neu/userfiles/file/nevowabosokirukel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/zumumedenuletujizeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386b6098451---353687327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trieuduong.com/images/Download/32608622832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stluciachamber.org/uploadedImages/contentImg/file/tokulimozokufaledoxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138171cbaca4---tutakikewalozib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+a+password+for+play+storePDF 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_off0000e693.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE693 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 7500590e94854a38e417062b996d566037b2b419d73db317bef1f89e37003032
font_01_sfnt_off0000fea1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000116b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116B3 18464 bytes
SHA-256: b80b14b94648541b06fafe94091df89def919988d2842f2892836998e7cda83d