Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 713123a99f936e6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.9 KB Created: 2021-06-28 14:59:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 23096a71ce5858f28165cee327035340 SHA-1: 931351c1730e8d708d6e678e6b1e0938db6499cf SHA-256: 713123a99f936e6c8ac2e1d0545c350e48c7c5d40f77b69a644d9ef44a9a7f06
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The document contains a link farm pointing to potentially compromised hosting, which is a common tactic to distribute malicious files. The presence of the 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive, likely to bypass initial security checks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160983416c2802---98865808835.pdf
    • http://geoodwierty.pl/files/file/genegemokexumud.pdf
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160915266d1863---nonawifalukulonirubepemu.pdf
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r793ch1punoifaosdut4qo8e91/82416695739.pdf
    • https://suma.ca/upload/editor/file/9678005032.pdf
    • https://elearning-chemistry.ro/userfiles/file/buzekorol.pdf
    • http://myjacksonfamilyreunion.com/clients/e/e2/e2167ce47089e9b789d53270b7cccc99/File/menitulupe.pdf
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdde34e7e2---gefaluvuxigu.pdf
    • http://tksvolga.ru/userfiles/file/lebetumepebuwowafaka.pdf
    • https://www.businesswatchguardingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e63fk8oe87j4afqn1ualp7aaml/gowafaluribefavoxisor.pdf
    • https://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bokirevitepugoles.pdf
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/kotabifigazog.pdf
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c272d7b9210---57732685044.pdf
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53bbigtkg1vofno1i6qm53osq8/729488025.pdf
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/kokatoga.pdf
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a703a8638bf---fadufiwotepaf.pdf
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097e8d041ea1---782611716.pdf
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a541bf39abe1a93f303efec6535d1784/42752048744.pdf
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae757a7541e---14229428246.pdf
    • https://kudamatsu.org/userfiles/file/38294479936.pdf
    • http://brmhn.com/userfiles/file/20210519122923_jjgsbm.pdf
    • https://www.plsok.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca0073db4e9e12ab8e713b8eb8614a89/gefetomalepipobi.pdf
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609464b226e0f---12384001575.pdf
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8fa4017d21---6332728532.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=jee+main+2010+question+paper+without+solution
    • 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_off00010f46.bin
3c4dbafa5a12d072598a89d1e3fcea1fc6b888c37a479af90d803c0a9c64916c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F46 11132 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001292d.bin
847d122567e92d79c692a944e73ffde000d968de7c3d408636971ebead971d96
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1292D 17120 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000155f6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x155F6 16792 bytes