Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a624b6676068893c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-05-24 12:47:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: df4892572702b936e72132f0b217f843 SHA-1: a72e60579ecf3d29f8436531bd6afdf148b53646 SHA-256: a624b6676068893c707770ef8e125866a31ba70a9323371c893bd40c56f2a5bc
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into downloading a password-protected file, which is a common tactic for evading security scans. The embedded URLs point to compromised websites, further supporting the phishing and payload delivery scenario.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=curso+de+caligrafia+art%25C3%25ADstica+gr%25C3%25A1tis+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5af7d4da6cc8ded156764e5a5e6f2d59/vobederodesiratus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093adb463586---xatusekikufevej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d9a7da93d43eef86629ac84ff6aba05/30075196695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightingsystemscol.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98322084d85bd6d85d58f53ff8034632/15034979936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/99133486027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nlrsv1hg7oo959hpfmk0ife0g1/11346858322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098892b5e6a1---kasebexakidofifefefujami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejasmineway.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96in5i4cgo2qldmv81es0dcdto/wakabimokevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vk1i4q7tfsuia5gheebnn871rb/13096990617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://an-professional.ru/img/files/file/24422847927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7facf05c41d2045bf7dd2d95bb60eea3/jokaseritazidib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d21cb01c7d---xosofezopexudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o8lucal7rsba06bsjoi9q6b671/powubedilililorafegojob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d3fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3FB 5516 bytes
SHA-256: a33e892855d5060c35199067309b6a8a30ae81a58e1461b451379efc05f71b65
font_01_sfnt_off0000e63a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE63A 12668 bytes
SHA-256: 2e17792637a9014b2fc984e20f448dbde16651174dc4ca1719f4a9c767d94cbf