Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de9ed26a87f1a1db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:15:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2c0d499485e16f69b1f9cb6f99cfebb1 SHA-1: b1f65ffe4318326e9c1f5e39f8820fc53fb77ba8 SHA-256: de9ed26a87f1a1db035e38b6e4a011645f9c15cdb296b856049b47a90037e69d
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to other PDFs hosted on compromised websites, likely to distribute malware or phish for credentials. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' suggests a common tactic of encrypting payloads and providing decryption instructions to bypass gateway security.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://thekolkatapackersmovers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vusojomibelegobepulaxiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://passionsavannah.com/clients/0/0a/0a61c075fa1d7d91f8ce2ef588f7e9ce/File/48436850412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hicoweld.com/shop/fck_file/file/70651330797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1aea6bc055---dafuvegaxuwerifivujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studiorosaliabusco.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sitatuxanikutasiberiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f825917b317f8842bb327fb286d88de2/jelemase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fdcba18591---gogivuxaxaran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bacdfc6ee18---xofaxanenug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/90372190103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://codecs.roimages/file/kaguteke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilpetrol.olajpark.hu/files/files/97268510457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58e6297503b918ba395b70a1dca26b8a/ruvixiduzufapilafazute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/tabovusekofulenugasilisom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagabb.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/genagava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leasingtowers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoweliter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecomassage.pt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m787h0lqc0hikeln758t1u57ee/fesejagowatifipepofozet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://live-lessons.net/lcj/web/uploads/assets/file/59146422354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30050116115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09ee722f13---59113410179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szpk.hu/_user/file/bedelolanaroriradob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volgogradexpo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62323177785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/28661618920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3a3a5fc3b---foxazulumijiluloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hilltop1976.com/clients/24685/File/nuvoxexevujeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juhaszautovill.hu/userfiles/file/77536296715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheers-gifts.com/userfiles/20584161397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+condense+pdf+files+for+emailPDF 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_off0000d4ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4EC 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 02a2abca3fc2c9c280193b33800b9b065a1cb2be051baf6de687b32540284c17
font_01_sfnt_off00010181.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10181 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 9ce609474b8a828aba30e167b230335db5461f24bd20e20c5f74c3a2c808f6d8
font_02_sfnt_off00011a95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A95 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1