Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a396590f71694f7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 04:49:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 92cbfaa2ea2b1d67d4018929cdc708bb SHA-1: 316d82875b165559e2be82079bc763b74298fd66 SHA-256: a396590f71694f7d3fddd770829baa3fa05211f76462707b7b762af99fd7df50
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, indicated by the 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious payloads. The presence of multiple external URIs and the ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature, likely as a downloader for further stages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=online+pdf+to+jpg+converter+password+protected PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ncstarim.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41rspon1ulakpimrooa2oj1mk3/kanerufepumeziwagomot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangduy.vn/vn/files/46532008649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xylemleads.com/userfiles/file/nozikimofawagafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinchenfast.com/upload/file/tuvumipowawozarikuvas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgindustrial.eu/userfiles/files/63701868504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://essentielles-theater.de/UserFiles/File/85401820041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tufatafosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161347367a3ffb---36668926591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lomenigama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newtop-eg.com/userfiles/file/45743760778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://test.uebersetzungen-nesselberger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b1a26f494---86805865554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bussmann-tiefbau.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12469942384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/57904058372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwvictory.com/uploads/files/94291961351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d1db866c51---47182562002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wumag.pl/userfiles/file/73931130308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinclub.org/FCKeditor/file/wuvigejajotux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/33941766675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mientrungland.net/uploads/image/files/nomupilasajasaxuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0db542d049807353edbdce2f896c83cb/38273366123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daotaoyduoc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c4ad2b11b275dcebf96a2b9c124b1f5/gabexulesik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://master-br.ru/img/file/56441763330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giyimkent.formenemlak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/fezikalenotalaxalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macauroommate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49316026963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000daf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAF7 17636 bytes
SHA-256: 781e035b511001eab252b3dc4044c0bdc3d3978067db8d5d5964f73f017609d6
font_01_sfnt_off000108a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108A6 11104 bytes
SHA-256: f9cbacea4527a3b9abf6406e691890f9d1c159ef13401322961d6db841eb20b3
font_02_sfnt_off00012280.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12280 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1