Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 774fcb3cd07435d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 22:23:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 18faaebbd423161bfdf9d846609aea8b SHA-1: 29f737b1a746b4e2cf681d207ce7971073edc83c SHA-256: 774fcb3cd07435d0e4827001a6b2ce915821b54fe119b2737e18e3c0edd5a027
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm on compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic strongly suggests the document is designed to trick the user into downloading and decrypting a malicious payload, likely facilitated by embedded URLs. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a phishing or downloader attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.lalorraineperdue.com/documents/zosozarivezebiv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/27371871948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonwering-nederland.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwabozinalelakisuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postele-z-masivu.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buzivetogup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canxetaianhduc.com/images/file/retow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/23340799781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkeweblongan.com/upload/files/xaxaposorofodilupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/22539428661389b1ecc251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135c8504056c---20688470116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cy2hand.com/userfiles/26144966958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakaxaloropunix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.feniuniversity.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/masadonaxeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/36873892338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9432ce895---56027181739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pobierzplik.pl/uploads/files/matogala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c5f437d6eebee3d1d9d76a34927b37a/raruzetopum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caytrong.vn/Images_upload/files/ributoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131b933ef197---bonodozomilotikizutavoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/64815201250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmoxx.mn/userfiles/files/21943039832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etspak.com/survey/userfiles/files/31860460136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girisimhaber.com/uploads/file/21695129837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentauto23.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20129916799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7166867.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kobozadegotabigepanenebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baruraprotidin.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/36536263963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=master+studies+2+joe+morello+pdfPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD948 18696 bytes
SHA-256: 4f8259a344c64f81b2ee1739ad3adff66f837c4c2ab04142005bf48b4e3db20c
font_01_sfnt_off00010a8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A8B 10900 bytes
SHA-256: ed8270d9f8ac76fdb3fba4b531dd1a6dff0b90c78f83acdfdc67e6cd21238651
font_02_sfnt_off000123c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123C9 2060 bytes
SHA-256: 4cdd91f471f1bfec3f228726ed7bb20e7d09f6a65001974ac0200414d37add97
font_03_sfnt_off00012d22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1