Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0740717a4324b3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-06-22 20:26:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2928e4a8208d07cce3aa9351c6b4fc14 SHA-1: 051409833dc46fc7d21ddc19582b0dd2c243e277 SHA-256: a0740717a4324b3facec1a2b7996d2cde9b0e3080d6af422329c50b7ca465213
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including a link farm on compromised CMS uploads and a lure for a password-protected archive. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and ClamAV detected it as a phishing trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'crack corel 2017' and 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure for pirated software, which is a common phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://tmtteks.com/files/63497303036.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7gohv8k58apatnr3e03h2t5cu8/denasijuxusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midiabyz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1f50771bb08c889b33515b20328b8b7/jakajujabokupituratezot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relocationservicesgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c98e07fcbf---gufomikuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/okgcip43d6i83mdih1220h4o7i/didaminigekusagejope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baraanduliaptti.org/userfiles/file/luvaseduse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yanartextil.com/firma/files/dixidavamiriferafixal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc59ae1d2188dd990b6d3c2130349210/82062543704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df226c38a5a378820782889e34fd6ae7/xegoxegirone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophirtonhotel.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607de23b0e132---takovafesusunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094091d5ddde---kerazidirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7a4c477e2f---roxagakesorowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0b268633a2---19349281732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidneystonetreatment.in/userfiles/files/jebisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=crack+corel+2017PDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f5e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5E9 4992 bytes
SHA-256: cbcd52383fe538b629faa88ce6a1155f51f994efc63bf607b75053f764c499ea
font_01_sfnt_off000106fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106FA 12896 bytes
SHA-256: bda4a49e6c12214b35b344fa49e639b11f0fd9aebf75413ad2a16fc1510bd362