Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7a47d0854731ed7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-09 04:01:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: fd6ddd5a4d70c10e8e5466f551095e24 SHA-1: 2b2c96aaeebe6dc92665b8fcebd3150431f9c6ca SHA-256: a7a47d0854731ed71d80588d026ce007668fa6d4cc36a0219254a6ac4db41292
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a password-protected archive lure. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://rent-lease-no1.com/userfiles/file/20210908020658.pdf
    • http://jncs.kr/page_data/file/20210903211853.pdf
    • http://tplustech.com/images/ckeditor/files/36453640076.pdf
    • https://www.hermanosvalerorecio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/korid.pdf
    • http://abwingsjanaf.com/uploads/files/15553793752.pdf
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec2a6c2b20---zuxinigugadanositagomika.pdf
    • https://delcinfo.ru/img/files/files/78646477914.pdf
    • http://alocainghien.com/uploads/userfiles/file/sovilotixadadirevutadir.pdf
    • https://rainbowprinter.com/app/webroot/files/file/welobakonadajarozu.pdf
    • http://artattack-concerts.de/files/file/51744151927.pdf
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/25982443312.pdf
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bolejiwokerizapupid.pdf
    • http://camara.acessoainformacao.org/uploads/ckfinder/files/92161088089.pdf
    • https://alice-immo.com/userfiles/file/47040687959.pdf
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-9/file/6746317783.pdf
    • https://www.dooleysnaturalgas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/runumefusulasitiduz.pdf
    • https://ifacemount.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqmehn8lmnj5i9t0tu3gr68s1f/nosufuguwozodev.pdf
    • http://pansophers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d096d1223---16575091238.pdf
    • http://flynewsletter.com/uploads/file/tusizanizaximonitopikut.pdf
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/13389549500.pdf
    • http://faurerom.com/userfiles/file/ludagazifuxipamomonida.pdf
    • http://dansungsala.com/uploads/files/domebeku.pdf
    • http://alfatreyd-mebel.ru/archive/images/file/sikituzoxegi.pdf
    • https://ccskin.com/geektic/files/41620551548.pdf
    • http://nmways.com/uploads/fckupload/file/72442205817.pdf
    • http://gyarmatilovastorna.hu/userfiles/file/jepimozabuveziwunese.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=system+volume+information+android
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de98.bin
f200c0909fd8b4907ec66c90883cfd06d344c993c5e8fdd469d4bb02e7bb584d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE98 10872 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7b0.bin
494a784f74904c829f36af2154b9461a3c4e6ce0d1b0c94078ad2f4948ad3708
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B0 18064 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000126a6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126A6 16792 bytes