Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab475f49ee2e878a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:02:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ad1b89444b9c6d07484f742e279bf8f6 SHA-1: d2b484bb6292613ea0ab07bbcad3784a2f9e6797 SHA-256: ab475f49ee2e878a4fb2145d4221fdccae344d21cec7fc02bfb9b45d0b2563d2
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into decrypting a subsequent malicious payload. Multiple URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting were extracted, likely serving as download locations for this payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=como+pasar+los+contactos+de+un+celular+android+a+un+iphone PDF link annotation
    • https://tlkingatlan.hu/kepek/other/file/43874126433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161364e3b2f277---8996123455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodottoitalia.eu/userfiles/files/15642396159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/93202999332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villapellegrino.it/userfiles/files/55894246543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://violetstudio.in/userfiles/file/xavomoxejeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/63609200582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ae209fb14---22036587798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://satellietgroep.nl/userfiles/files/59895551947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wewor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neteyes.eu/editor_up/79318197488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/73813440297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kodeac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h4v2vr84q7dvmnenaiuot1dv5r/muzozesebebejijot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadtbild-intervention.de/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12629561636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-gallery.mn/uploads/files/doxopidokoberulewis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kibbkw.com/uploads/files/37750841782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/6526032932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santaclara.com/wysiwygfiles/file/1757992922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plantessentialoil.com/upload/files/93854624247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahuacoop.com/cms_gpadmin2015/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/fubibiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karate-talence.com/newsite/userfiles/files/11056153628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insightonafrica.in/userfiles/file/medoxuvigelimem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/file/nokimivekufejok.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_off0000dee5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEE5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F7 18328 bytes
SHA-256: 8555ca0af31db1a2421fb0d7beb8b6ed50eebe3bef673625de183e6f6cd91348
font_02_sfnt_off000125b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B8 10912 bytes
SHA-256: ea6ed880ebaa72b7c0a19318e714f453b418253951a7575c2d0e7d6109337dfb