Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e493218de711fae6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-10-16 12:42:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 039c554d1c26097f67d8e6343a749ee9 SHA-1: 5560baafd00ce5e7a1f535e6be08de3b0c2ffc52 SHA-256: e493218de711fae6b52769e9f1d331dcb0352634b1eb73e9ef7a0ae43879b526
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution lure. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true destination. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://profiklub.sanswiss.cz/files/file/vajizukebikep.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ba9ed0b268---jijewexamigajejipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailygiasi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/rutunovegubefegoraja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riminabda.sk/userfiles/file/gipanuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/mopalesufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://visualpaint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615c7d6371321---zorowametumazofurofaneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.poole.ed.jp/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gegedijakolox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70562331164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orangcar.com/app/webroot/upload/files/gewememogumip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanguardhungary.hu/userfiles/file/rizapagerepukuwazepase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wizclub.net/upload/userfiles/file/6951215073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birizgardenhotel.com/userfiles/file/vevabuzadojarikamoraxupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bon-mar.com/fck_user_files/file/lonemeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softtox.com/new/userfiles/file/6622712312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-daomeng.com/upload/userfiles/files/3837050d556c36cd08840d9d30c76a69.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromamahabaleshwar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59495322910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuketdriveschool.com/userfiles/file/kuxadudeluzofitivavelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horgaszvelem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kalepuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termoformat.md/img/files/lepizatixapafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twfbs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xavukuset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16145b66797461---35012659039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grabnerestriche.at/nujexefit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pessin-location.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68661617541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/TxADE9PCSUw/uplcv?utm_term=mutualpay+property+pay+comsPDF 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_off0000bd0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD0F 10544 bytes
SHA-256: fdc6fdaa475c4d3e98ad81db90cdf2b0c3a8cc64479d80505525a29228516524
font_01_sfnt_off0000d53b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD53B 17568 bytes
SHA-256: b13281efd0ccc5d58b142c5ee0eb35f86f6d15cd02b5b98aabe036bba56ddb34
font_02_sfnt_off00010266.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10266 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1