Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 955558f4b1a3c0e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 05:20:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 89fd8d593fe7b68d7c1fa62d32d950ae SHA-1: 73cf8038b62fe63f90c6d0b1107424cc4946a732 SHA-256: 955558f4b1a3c0e6f499fa2d5db1cc47580d69574ecbc432803f57b7f0431a30
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document may be instructing users to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway scanning. ClamAV also detected this file as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://vakantie-noordlimburg.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6912738944.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://udokutscher.de/gfx/userfiles/files/99588493158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/45799316479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aolisenjiancai.com/data/files/83361067442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glina-master.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80934295441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyitotthetvege.kastelyszallodak.hu/userfiles/files/68403824133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingatlantv.tv/userfiles/files/doponiboliwufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bongoes62.dk/userfiles/file/1885280913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fallahi-sch.com/userfiles/file/figopasolitibamevusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maciejabramowicz.pl/upload/files/file/verirodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f08dfe26414759f19330518ed2c3fa3/pewaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantalentjunction.com/milan/media/vagosijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145056601aef---51377050488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/dadosilozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urdu-hadith.com/survey/userfiles/files/motelawunifowofulemebilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149163ced0ef---romuwuwubumazapis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xorarepoxasaxamilafewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7efc29b19540c31ba829d591ae7de50/4270655043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viprealestatebrokers.com/userfiles/files/kedito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/rujitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louisianarebarcontractor.com/editorimg/file/63421837361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laughteronlineuniversity.com/images/upload/files/70239810049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gitteszoneklinik.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49084395246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miet.hu/kepek/zudikajakipidojegivitejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/71721429010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=android+factory+settingsPDF 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_off0000d6a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB7 10700 bytes
SHA-256: d9582af8f5651db0446824ad4253d169d9032ef9a602edc12bb86b394cbcc54a
font_02_sfnt_off0001073d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1073D 17592 bytes
SHA-256: 1c01a08610027932eb24a659317ec5922f6e296bfee0ea8e4124e8dc0142944a