Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de2db91874bdb21c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 19:56:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ad9537de66fbdfd141b13ba201f8a8c6 SHA-1: 5d43254f5aeb0e7e7e80525d1a78e42e96f2c81e SHA-256: de2db91874bdb21c1a79f541138523c316b2b5a7a5342a616f2b180b58f53219
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic suggests the document's primary purpose is to trick users into decrypting and executing a payload. Numerous URLs extracted from the document, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, likely serve as download locations for this secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=archimate+notation+overview+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://morpheus-architects.com/file_media/file_image/file/pekutiliji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/18594065842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8c28acf0a8178925ecce403cd99f9a4/kapijazamububag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lt503k4hg6ceh4ouva6f83fi04/37841178845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apisicul.com/userfiles/files/42081583164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolmalatrek.com/userfiles/file/8908315852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.shipsupply.co.mz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161038a89695f1---13705979849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pulatalirekosolumedag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a226c10ce4---4587868901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpital-sulecin.pl/images/fckfiles/file/kabajorixubanobipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cf0e6aaacc---48537983884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanasushichoice.com/uploads/files/92940377255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.ie/fckeditor/userfiles/file/vexelulusarefuxinipikerug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtnet-engine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/noroparimewusilexikarizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmeds.us/userfiles/file/mezusekenorumej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transfertrolley.cn/d/files/tiwanapalumubofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8d55ef0cd3---9014316004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/345ca3c965bef14f0398dc7c87f2cb46/79727750850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/zifovofowabatuweje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/kezezazapazeluna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/li7g10ppor8t6piv4n78cfgetb/14881080565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3e12e63253---fazutezufujagatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovewhereyoulv.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afa397288f44c4e9e163a44614832860/nizufitodivusowofi.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_off0000c2bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2BB 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 3935518178bcba8d757971c68634928c4a6fb389588b4c5bf6765c71ed840be4
font_01_sfnt_off0000db84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB84 17004 bytes
SHA-256: 4f19937adadf919ea3762878b769322227df3e98ee17f38bb4776a93e599c458
font_02_sfnt_off000106b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1