Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8de84fb6f83ebc87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-05-24 19:15:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b2bf5b8314aff9365cb44c907fefa19f SHA-1: 7128e3c826c9039ed74d40a4f8bd7c807e76cfd7 SHA-256: 8de84fb6f83ebc872c46d47dc0ac5bf09c411c291c4999291d7b03c60a6e1e68
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically using a fake software license as a pretext to encourage downloads. The presence of multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of vulnerabilities or the delivery of a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=licencias+de+eset+nod32+2022
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/71749048434.pdf
    • https://damiel.eu/userfiles/file/43104937213.pdf
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73f9dc41b3c378be81fd4ed0eeefa135/mivirepob.pdf
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/46689316966.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a807aceac17---91605781566.pdf
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8129a803b78fe5aae885bb6717ab3f1c/24737542322.pdf
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984163edd30---18311020465.pdf
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/joferozageporijozupoj.pdf
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f0884a030ca535990c434ff8e2199b4/zilazifi.pdf
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/janujisatabotaxefive.pdf
    • https://travolution.travel/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/befe7ad541c57ee761618987f8631f65/16088957457.pdf
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ghlvcjph5o15bnipo7q9hpuq0i/nuwofovidoxisi.pdf
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/76741137232.pdf
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2mrgo7hol8ubvjuh5rvrvlvpip/lasuzakivadam.pdf
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa7cc4a26f4---59291869108.pdf
    • https://nuregio.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56f9ccf95f---golodagoba.pdf
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c598fd3dd5019e4ef93ce143f333e567/towevamofavugesefalos.pdf
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f1662414b4---66126803285.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ce7e.bin
63ce7963ed32886eb87d70a19ebcd71ceaf5dfae23f04f55bd05c6489f72d09d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE7E 5184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e034.bin
e2c6d8449e8eac75f776d31982bf365492e6054988ae02ed87c119e99ca7afa9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE034 11176 bytes