Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5336d8f1148f877…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-21 07:02:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: a5edba90274d200ab04e8a8d6aaa393d SHA-1: e01bb75b37bad418d40bc2af191f479d432bfbec SHA-256: a5336d8f1148f877b73bb93a4539c55c34c352275632d83654ab6c0907f86373
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to evade initial security scans. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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://xn----7sbicwad4afgcgd5aph7d5e.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mewivip.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.urban-quartz.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e4f431a9419b1e7e0f91295507b6465/92928883809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhagiatxanh.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/3799541988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louisefarmersmith.com/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/firipofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kieryk.pl/img/userfiles/file/pogodoxekakopuzolalubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lineshare.net/upload/files/20210912195553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e79c958b03---xeruvatoxuviruzomibupod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annassteen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buvavibive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbinteriery.cz/userfiles/file/78886306234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezpiecznamlodosc.org/files/file/46667238034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltes.tw-goods.com/UserFiles/files/dugugime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutbephottaihaiphong24h.com/upload/files/baxunuredavun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invision.buzyhub.com/files/wukudawumino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nordiskvillaventilation.dk/userfiles/file/ravisujezup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digicpictures.com/downloads/29010752822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://9jamail.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/userfiles/file/sokukuxawixuxaxuxatub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh8ke.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef9857ab6a---24446524629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lagostena.it/userfiles/files/90753090325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solee.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fepumawepuzupimumifew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/suwukuwejikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquatrustfina.com/userfiles/file/50741570837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gc-antey.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20187037041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://texinpack.com/uploadfile/file///2021090708173325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jl-vacuum.com/upload/files/95168188566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aorganboys.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/fokubikinegapipadidol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=zip+file+password+cracker+apkPDF 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_off0000e27e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27E 10552 bytes
SHA-256: a0007c27fc78235ed72aefb2b6746c174d660c45bd223dc5ac923a45ab1cf03c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fac2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAC2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000112d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112D4 17912 bytes
SHA-256: 66fae2e8e6b9b09a469b7d4b71c342ab14ea61f703f4dabcfe6a44a8690ae347