Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dd733946adba2112…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 21:33:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 95df7554c0183a81983c867e3152905a SHA-1: 230af8c064f4a4bcd23027a9fd92800ab1212c3a SHA-256: dd733946adba211237df52eff3d11e8c81617ea0dacc6dc10d3dac6312cbab20
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. 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 as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports a malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a9d664f300---70178938123.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tinnituskozpont.hu/files/rafevasujemowuxupok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euinsuti.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/51046589792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puginternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/videnuxenutifatoxedutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruh-center.ru/userfiles/file/96233760832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kashima.cc/userfiles/file/bamidezem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travellightnepal.com/userfiles/file/50290912119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalwedding.jp/images/blog/file/laroxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibericadearmerias.com/file/getixalupanezepadul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.css-jp.com/upfile/files/2021/09/01/97042097835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadharshilaschool.org/userfiles/file/76011094205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteurluc.com/userfiles/file/5594312892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143bdfc94a84---62399199492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/88197108431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolizmusonline.hu/images/upload/file/kizomenubilulexupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3d2fc90e3cad25f42b09305c109f7f1/97472421035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tabularasa.lv/sites/tabularasa/uploads/documents/files/30912305675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn----htbdepbihnfb8cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duzewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcoloringpages.com/userfiles/file/muwanajav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levant-tekstil.com/other_files/File/sititigamirutirelesejako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbraneklapka.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90813682785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npcbalkan.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/simekodalumefudilavige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongthamphucthang.com/images/news/files/suwolawonekudozowexonada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/63344751418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=note+10+safe+modePDF 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_off0000d91a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD91A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f12c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF12C 17464 bytes
SHA-256: a7dfa25fcd7d7db59907b4808fc981f484d1283a11a623ac2166e255c134a59b
font_02_sfnt_off00011e9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E9C 10324 bytes
SHA-256: d8885e9d93bb2516654316b839a4d2212c038acecbaf409d812255153132c1e8