Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 789792231e3eb318…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.3 KB Created: 2021-08-19 05:29:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f2136e367b0dbf33d54118823cf4c106 SHA-1: c2c9f44b9a835a344e17a9953f90cc0058c5c4ca SHA-256: 789792231e3eb318ddae96967318bd787051ea2be39f0190b120b5a8782e238e
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests a common tactic of encrypting payloads to bypass security gateways. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://magrubber.com/images_upload/files/bufuretukusatumeferew.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd68d8b7695---50084457031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/818fe2ba3db9d8f97fb13326b23ee312/2307111682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b441cebd4972e0964194e36f9135bc6a/lafobiwozaxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earthchartercities.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609187f6699c0---xipumetunireseboxila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mysmilestudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6d59bcfda05e5e0d4877046569cae42/3260094859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gadkowski.pl/repository/filemanager/file/gedaratipemutosuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xboxheerlen.nl/userfiles/file/zujopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/xagunasavikag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lohs69.com/clients/82366/File/24223827127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deltastal.ru/userfiles/file/siviluwazusuvotimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahi.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72ca94d3d7689abf5079a35e6e85165f/jigebobabiri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/7814298077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hhcreunion.com/clients/4/43/43f38dc94a4d709fe78decf5bd9d7370/File/65599274607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orhancoskun.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083f4227dc92---tovagapulunemenudakuniru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe8cfedc028---14077208181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limpjet.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6e5b5f3d98fdd701a749a8da5a333d95/31656998612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609db65310629---84956444170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/soberasaxiluxitirufizob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mineraux-et-lithotherapie.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/91819528198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxilitomerice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kanikadik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://domilot.com/uploader/files/67221755299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=como+dividir+un+archivo+pdf+en+lineaPDF 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_off0001005b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1005B 18368 bytes
SHA-256: b5026f4a6c1f646acbe47f34584ac701c516c31dc21eb7b24477ac2e834ccabc
font_01_sfnt_off00012fb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FB7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000147ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147CE 10816 bytes
SHA-256: e533a682650f83bb9edda870ce34173d014768d796e1face812b490cc8cea3bb