Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2b2a20d8386f428…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 19:55:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: dfaac9474b3257c0e5eae74e3758fbe9 SHA-1: 078e6b081e1a19f5206988ac000a66c75714fc4c SHA-256: d2b2a20d8386f428f263f25bb85427d91bcf2a03a8e8308ca2e880c3b5449f27
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to download a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. ClamAV detection and ML classification further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/getobexorajitifimenetidun.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02b9b940cf152353381913b71fd926a5/18434598175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abzesolar.com/uploads/files/70431429190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfpackbasketballacademy.com/content_docs/75182851898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://speaklifeiamgreatness.com/files/files/27004743341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5cc589688---gizip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zionapostolicministries.org/uploads/file/vafapigoxisoxidusefiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadever.vn/Images_upload/files/20693673581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/26741315008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harrisonsfamilyreunion.com/clients/62911/File/4091655247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/8948098143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovosluzba-praha.cz/res/file/kolisobebufazuxusug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xmst.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/43964621047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8004a026c---99560849979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bceaf4a89c6---96435516508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebdaatcoop.com/userfiles/files/kuvomufafekapurigivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mytutr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/774c6013c29ef8752b1230843b8dd858/pumegego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/40105465979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/144786e378c3b1273bbb255b36f4ef22/67163221621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hadt.vn/upload/files/sikikomipawufuxixapigopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graphicon.hu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610980bbde0d9---18720566224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paoladebenedetti.eu/userfiles/files/97718278163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075428f7f68c---31405646288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084227b4d010---40622284904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07452e09571fcfbedaf8ef7cfd98ada9/99047341549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=way+of+peaceful+warrior+book+pdfPDF 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_off0000defc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f70e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF70E 18144 bytes
SHA-256: d29fc8f3f33a901486e3f0cae24e024b3394a9a86057eadb30f95507e87f2fa3
font_02_sfnt_off000125be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125BE 10768 bytes
SHA-256: 0bca816cbea999ed04cc7fb4bf4172e6392a67f721accbbe957907819819dda2