Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5b4ef20399fbbc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.9 KB Created: 2021-08-13 01:32:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 2c592ab42ed50747389cc080670da354 SHA-1: d38384a8f8d39a4b02a36e0d4cc5e5fec31ed845 SHA-256: a5b4ef20399fbbc31a47cf90a28f427aad5f7340db3fd03da82add5dc5afb5ba
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external links, including those hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document may be instructing users to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security scans.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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 https://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=metamax+para+que+sirve PDF link annotation
    • http://studiocalderini.it/userfiles/files/24576123880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapawan15.com/shop/fck_file/file/77763374023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e6f27713e---sabaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameralehiep.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/84218690152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bjsteelvietnam.com/upload/fck/file/30158154015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topcudental.com/img/userfiles/files/dumafirewimotikusin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skvacations.com/userfiles/file/jijisiribenikubanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fredericjean.net/oplusco/file/98571172120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harmony-lazienka.pl/Upload/file/lafotujosawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamexmarket.com/uploads/files/katin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solmoda.it/userfiles/files/18161983620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arkystudio.eu/userfiles/files/kefisofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/riferevajatuvugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--42-6kcdlkbomh7beggito5p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/85336984504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://afgventuregroup.com/cfiles/file/dimegesofafare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/92690758329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quickonboarding.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79b9a950094bbb3f9169d5b9f321b97e/duniwiworuzijilep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed53e5de5f6645286efe82aaf79a0a14/vogesawesamome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karat-dobremiasto.pl/userfiles/file/magasufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrcookie.tw/upload/editor/file/301540535459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b3a53d3d495d934944b7117e454f7d7/fuwagobabefisosesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/vovaxubunuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelshops.pl/userfiles/file/94927812797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grdr.org/paidel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43716401190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dagulononedotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shreejians.com/userfiles/file/xubitedinilugazet.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_off0001028b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1028B 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 9942880a11d16278b2f3aab737b27959d5ff2dbe6e38c4cf0ddb9778871402b2
font_01_sfnt_off00011aa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AA0 17844 bytes
SHA-256: 36645a3f26b7f7923beb931d95205a90b5365c5eaa1f125498eaf53b63f41cb9
font_02_sfnt_off0001481e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1481E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1