Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f7a8ef2323db90a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

139.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 21:25:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: fc2540107cc991d3ae572bdce0b9867b SHA-1: 06224aceb9776949695e0950b39c618f7ca8ca07 SHA-256: 9f7a8ef2323db90a42a1c3fb6275996a306892611f2a8f62601a006f80b608cb
276 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits multiple high-risk lures, including a recovery secret/private key request and a password-protected archive handoff, suggesting an attempt to trick users into revealing sensitive information or providing credentials for malicious purposes. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites further supports a malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials. While no scripts were directly extracted, the document's structure and heuristic firings indicate it is designed to exploit user trust for illicit gain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9871

Heuristics 9

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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.
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • 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://naturallabs.de/userfiles/file/25871953247.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://year-c.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-9/20210909165335534431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marchmontnews.com/imgs/file/vapagidux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asthasupermarket.com/userfiles/file/12481160846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://propack-th.com/image/upload/File/wolibemug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italianopizzeria-pg.com/uploads/files/30350151859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161437d44dc1f0---fogutepijumobidijikejapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buzascsaba.hu/userFiles/file/9322876680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/31283678065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wikanifewomibik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtsonline.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acenka44cpg673b98vu4p0v4gc/rixiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://embassyinvietnam.com/webroot/img/files/rabef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f9ae14edc3abe41c6ffaa408e089975/40389243444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/bosatarunozefovojelora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irinaburmistrova.ru/files/67333456471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abacusnancy.com/userfiles/file/42251374803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.net/userfiles/files/33960870821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psychologkmalinowska.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mugidugitexijagogovotit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/bozujipevawatuxuvemuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://honghow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48583021737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiroyoung.com/data/files/1744813632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140069e7ff1f---32605583513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53190819652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tvmreza.tv/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lemekifepadut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanhungcorp.com/images/uploads/files/18430837075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/baponukoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=remove+embedded+fonts+from+pdf+onlinePDF 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_off0001bea4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1BEA4 10748 bytes
SHA-256: 6eebd6b11c2760f9959a0fb65e0c857bc11033a25040cd14351aa992eec47673
font_01_sfnt_off0001d71b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D71B 18964 bytes
SHA-256: 0420bbe06fe2655489df5920527d8c7c02fd1c35a1044f5c4945d320dd533b16
font_02_sfnt_off000207d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x207D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1