Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4aab23bd797f577…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-31 04:55:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 8a935c63287e87dd415a29bc0ce6cb8d SHA-1: f7977e07a7e827c7078f8a41c883bbaf7d22a07b SHA-256: d4aab23bd797f577dfd90f453d46a4e09b21be1f4e9911b9bae3a6b1e7ece7da
216 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 heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that likely lead to further malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive lure' heuristic suggests the document may be designed to trick users into providing passwords or downloading password-protected files, a common tactic for evading security gateways.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 8

  • 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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/48059665620.pdf
    • http://koovappadyscb.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79049935903.pdf
    • http://jagatjyotischool.org/jagatjyotischool/userfiles/file/36868754138.pdf
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855e5677b1a---20031873867.pdf
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc779627084---1598888792.pdf
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5huikorf98s636s2gtldgap665/47514659082.pdf
    • https://iescolumbus.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ad592ad9ef728c51ff0545cdc331dba/8628422256.pdf
    • https://pointsourcegroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad3c390efb0e0e71a8dba1e19a3a797a/89750704700.pdf
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9dbebc725e---popobak.pdf
    • http://www.rlktechniek.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac20eca5d08---murererif.pdf
    • http://takeacode.net/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/xorogipububizerukubituwe.pdf
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71335249a3cbb3db74c5f687b3ba3888/59705590015.pdf
    • http://happy-travel089.com/CKEdit/upload/files/85020794661.pdf
    • https://cffcommunications.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bfe303cf5f9---98193445331.pdf
    • https://www.puskinas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29716040825.pdf
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d325d2d588aaaab59c81ae1f694bf9c0/tojalufovizifexalafikolup.pdf
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e85e262cde0---tuniwotukelexowafimux.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=como+descargar+clash+royale+en+pc+nox
    • 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_off0000ea3d.bin
9f95c77216ca3500b095eabf750f6ade8c6d9eaef0a0138024d4c9bca7a9a249
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA3D 18808 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011ab6.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB6 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000132cd.bin
45ff5bb717b08c6ad93266f47122148d14df6b5562227fad4ae7833a091e6da4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132CD 11020 bytes