Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3e24292454dde5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 16:02:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 8157f1e998e302fc60f44556fbd28458 SHA-1: 15e36636bd25bb1cb5671b019fc724fdef4b409d SHA-256: e3e24292454dde5d2b39cf0954f5007ae5e5b9fa1a8419895d630c405bb2f978
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document may provide instructions for accessing a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security gateways.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=allwinner+h3+tv+box+firmware+download PDF link annotation
    • http://metalzilemboeventi.com/userfiles/files/71022992931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrlita.ru/archive/image/file/jegorad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ktcyy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94844957868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesorgubernamental.com/images/file/43703526806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alakharia.com/public_html/userfiles/file/37040483147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhkayseri.com/resimler/files/xomupubiritamosexudetag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusiongrup.ro/userfiles/file/29473362888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kor-ra.ru/UserFiles/file/widasidab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truckforceone.eu/upload/editor/file/pebuponevifugumuloned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f095921331---zizebejutezajemon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dywin.com/uploadfile/files/xutafuxozerifufufitupuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipcmanpower.com/admin/style/images/userfiles/file/27350018093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a5b62e86a---9650843664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--tnqz8hz5cb8l.com/upload/files/65501800079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/worerap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoneofytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosevoluwinogukamufege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/10977226575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613219642d6db---tagavutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/8758918234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonikqnc.com/upload/editor/file/1630501810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonarkella.com/userfiles/file/ramanuvejezebivone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1631039918_f6032fcc5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodzipo.com/uploads/userfiles/files/16280442406.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_off0000c9ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9AD 18324 bytes
SHA-256: 307593d4b0283afb59fc08423dc7513a206bf36904bbb09ab94c0a14127c5dd1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f88b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF88B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000110a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110A2 11000 bytes
SHA-256: cfbd203a861ee3973f4d8092756249ac1b68c057271bcd1f4756538d1f98f1f6