Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e35165f60a1cf888…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-08-28 01:27:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c774e5a022d1eb8e6fbcba9cc0280f16 SHA-1: 7d57c5fa56168afa5d90fe257ad3cb06a4f555a7 SHA-256: e35165f60a1cf888ab5c89fef0346ab613de379c160b50a7d23f751c31e2631f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to direct users to malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document may be instructing users to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security scanners.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://gagiongvitgiong.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vazebidozogage.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chaplains-camps.org/upload_picture/file/51068747833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telorgabus.com/contents/files/67100574031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tmfconnected.com/clients/6/67/67cd703e63b47da0cba1438f70967d25/File/dikaxufijerukusedidafuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4125c02de7---jeloxujapunuzosusosit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://europeancustomtailor.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6c6414f72e740ec3d04423fb786f035/falexabonovotebuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a9me3e2lb4vr0flpqejs8nh3k/xekasuwurorabugir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kentcliffordreunion.com/clients/a/aa/aa84b18e55fac3ff3c25336c5005d9e5/File/lelare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/komirarudapomatasareni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medical-psychology.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f84f5155d9e---konoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092165c60fd1---nifadek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/fusonutupesef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efc6bb66291db42f2c089a62b3b65dc6/68881156544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curtisfamilyfun.net/clients/e/e0/e02f67ab5b6879a7eb6c21a3163f7106/File/83313575306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eeae78ac0ff9553cf5efa272bb5880a8/72332166743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/33906430207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/pakepuvisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f00d9607234---nasafinuxekarujapifiret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allmassage.net/upload/file/20210517092217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atthaya.com/file_media/file_image/file/dojidofexux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiaato.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210713_7FC1AF74652A0B74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hornets88.com/clients/56662/File/84659378823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=the+oxford+history+of+western+art+pdfPDF 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_off0000c5be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDD5 10816 bytes
SHA-256: e9ef37b41542468647558da2af03e46c9183451ab7008d972b554e46a3456920
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6DE 16708 bytes
SHA-256: a30a48b4d4db6296abab045279ef6bd6c323c203b71548d55457513951964473