Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1885a454174f9fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-11 16:35:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: b5765b28b903a7df26e2c09cf9971f24 SHA-1: b22ccc86298c74af638d2e9c2f6a5b1d3216d8db SHA-256: e1885a454174f9fa7d7446724904e2b6f4b118f0d7a67d4f0c84c20dc50416f4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics point to the document acting as a link farm, directing users to compromised websites, some of which host PDF files. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://dolupin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wefurezekiz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.beautyvogue.ch/Files/file/31785701285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanhacollection.com/images/files/zositekojaxuwazimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjburgerut.com/uploads/files/viwadigipesekanarurijomok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balmybnb.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/wulefivazimeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skoleniridicubrno.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43035508447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsphc.com/userfiles/file///zoxilomisilokebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138a2fca95e7---15235097363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profession-your-dr.com/uploads/files/202109041835085593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polipadel.com/userfiles/file/nakixuwegezamusesuparezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaies.net/upfiles/210904075324399134imlf2u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alperbehang.nl/userfiles/file/3983789512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://membranekeyboard.pl/_data/file/81110226071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://another-partner.morefriendship.com/upload/files/24368630719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvvc.cz/files/87367908213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ortopediaszombathely.hu/editor_up/vexoripo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/defejozamixoleseko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gaseg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n0298f58qb4bsof5i9ed0c0q97/92467617522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanhcongnghiepthinhphat.com/upload/files/91363711236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tataservice.it/userfiles/file/67077113681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercato.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bc8dd86efe---2904371166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/salasagalusoraruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takipbizde.com/calisma2/files/uploads/91568336232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insight-assessment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12442273485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/72831053904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbabaajmdfbk3ddf3azka3b6a2r.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kegemazomez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a-metal.e-giant.net/archive/file/files/woloxiruveje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=download+archiver+apkPDF 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_off0000db69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB69 19388 bytes
SHA-256: 4ba4d76e1bc5c33bd15f16b830e18b2785b20414a096dec20659910b58cb5a58
font_01_sfnt_off00010d8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000125a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125A5 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 520cf68347f4f83fabba732ad92293d63de50d647ea3d423db6f33f42961820a