Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 750879cc6167752a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-07-03 11:02:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 1620ec9e95c2a96997e75740b86abe87 SHA-1: ef49f59c7ac286c0222ac20eac956accea38c208 SHA-256: 750879cc6167752ada4c3dbba65188c118ab148adfcab9c9854c82645729aad2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it is a password-protected archive lure, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. Numerous URLs are present, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a distribution network for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=children%27s+basic+needs+described+by+maslow PDF link annotation
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/92640795933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/82641594738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97e78082197c32b7faf26267ed328b3c/56546110950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/83391693850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/zonizuxuzozopadipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fff397070e---30601601492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/fixefawevijademuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609144eae4d50---86963417232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af97991a0b3---47907040605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160785ccb18dcb---93919569324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f624eaefaf30bcfe79cd2d8a8ad55e0b/81684980286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gfb.it/upload/fck/file/23805120412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccphucvinh.com/upload/files/81541877963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1608091518c9e4---favog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/60560195256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhrdbekasi.com/webroot/userfiles/files/66522266079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mg3qo5g7a9p59kip20hgp19pmt/48302363327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurek-rowery.pl/user_pict/file/domuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-district.org/userfiles/file/gaxozuginokixikig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eaf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAF0 17144 bytes
SHA-256: d507001dcfac84cc6deff978ddbad5705cfbbb711d0e95cd20fff66be0ef2dd5
font_01_sfnt_off0001177b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1177B 10940 bytes
SHA-256: bae7b8f80cb3d58204b669c00755f5a3955a35a6d21f41c0da81a85bbc993494
font_02_sfnt_off000130b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1