Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8071cd1c4d7cfc8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-13 20:48:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: d7adc8aea6989298fe6ef4bb09fdccf6 SHA-1: 522202c5c5de2417e9ddf7ae0aa82077106a5971 SHA-256: 8071cd1c4d7cfc8bd162827f71f6555d5185e27e5e87d2c84be48516881cfaaa
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to evade gateway scanning. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content, potentially a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://asesoriazabalburu.org/azaba/files/file/vinibena.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://piti.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/35078577518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hgbehringer.de/img/files/files/lotupijazomururavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/2963477796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolkataangikar.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zumusegatiselafebijoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613632ac6f7fc---lipuzilajimuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zumuwanovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210913232127_1131282044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindonis.com/userfiles/file/90983794954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/732527d4685def71887b6434aafcfd32/xepumik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokeocncafe.com/uploads/files/50022400058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27ed6ac281314992b1c7164bc7f197a8/suxivevidikeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nnetworks.com/files/others/setogaxavoxakejesuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equipelec.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24022927705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavachhaiphong.com/upload/files/36865704480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/vokesepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartementslisa.it/an3_Uploads/file/68954646564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tekizolasyon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zifutagikizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbd8b1c3ec14132a627532fb820c04ff/doxixugoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137580eabc25---nunapapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://familienbilstrup.dk/userfiles/file/2484941233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ispartaprefabrik.com/ckfinder/upload/files/2614227400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suativisamsungtaihanoi.net/upload/files/mituvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitsiluet.cz/data/file/widexiniwizise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=i+forgot+my+android+password+how+do+i+unlock+itPDF 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_off0000c228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC228 11280 bytes
SHA-256: 6656a520602e83ae8f5618ea2fa5244c2bded4ca2cf687c4d43d1fdc80f0893e
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC58 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f46a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46A 18220 bytes
SHA-256: 83662ecb73f16bfd6458867abf0a721c2863862ecf97c463b057203e3e50f28d