Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4f4e769df0453f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:01:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ab0b97ef0edfd0e5d6d4986a41e30d49 SHA-1: 0bad7fb0e3219bddaf0cbb9cf0f15a4de822cc3a SHA-256: a4f4e769df0453f8d1a45c0efb76ef3e91e8e7b5e484c933af2124eaa3f92ad7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to trick users into downloading further content. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to provide a password for an archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway scanning. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/zijirezofunuliposinoxap.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/madat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juliesfundforkids.com/clients/d/d6/d6f17a7a4e9d342a12f8f8eeddb80b2d/File/66971685401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/595e641840a195b036c57a0a3ede6f8f/27236362546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karolinanowak.com/userfiles/file/sunagoguzix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/zusazonejurefuzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/korogokozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iact2001.com/userData/board/file/14595896657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3c05236f444f3586fc7d18990d13e03/59534543139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20381131128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e90e94cf653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i1d9cqvsnqggn6rrqm696pirgn/18366189941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac52c181553---xupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agriturismolataggiasca.eu/userfiles/files/91964884495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioixedap.net/upload/files/13503421414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://augustaelectricalwork.com/editorData/file/85970715713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usefchina.com/uploadfile/file///2021080412301088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/30074051960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/51292151522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalderini.it/userfiles/files/penanerobajoxekozutufefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b2ihq0q7d7semp9g77fknv2394/gojijizesumek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a14055b72a9---91978601995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.com/data/cms/file/51373769839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://better-pharma.com/images/file/files/98809273240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=website+hacking+with+kali+linux+pdfPDF 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_off0000e089.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE089 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f8a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A0 11192 bytes
SHA-256: e7a19fb7812c239f0fac2eae5a90e2752dc17e0f54b8abe8ad2ebf62d6a37d1d
font_02_sfnt_off0001126e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1126E 17404 bytes
SHA-256: 68e41b5b795d6e4cf31692372960e6b9ebd1465898ed6a8ef84f002e527a261c