Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7b838cf8119067a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:03:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: bba5f4500b49a1639cd51f2b611142e8 SHA-1: bc6ced935e0b6527c0e4037291bce6438139c3b9 SHA-256: e7b838cf8119067a595bc6ba6011df1b1803ac4110eec10aa06757c912d7f991
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, employing a link farm strategy on potentially compromised websites to direct users to malicious content. The presence of a 'password-protected archive handoff' heuristic suggests an attempt to conceal a malicious payload, likely delivered via one of the numerous extracted URLs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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 http://taiwan-casters.com/userfiles/file/rulefiteb.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents/files/bizumezupixukebijemexemoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jiptv.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24f15hslr157nqainiu1mvoviu/paxaraberufosugiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e640bd9ea072c3d3a5e1f4646fd971b9/71663884663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098d7f56f2ff---lezinejilavad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb1da6b78ba9efeeb6b8dd2611e0c2d2/xizam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podimercrm.com/img/files/85301830581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160803a925ed65---73715259187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stmrcstvm.com/userfiles/file/28198910896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610da3ba6f0bd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075189b4132e---33921627373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukierniabrzezinski.pl/www/artizam/fck/file/15772258611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ff184d6178473879fdafc23c92b946b/49788415988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalyna.ua/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/10759221504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pozitron-s.ru/userfiles/file/52729906751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kleinimmobiliere.lu/userfiles/files/tuxenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mostex.sk/files/articles/file/lazosewafimugefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160968020de825---pajigubugavanebakuwada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://banerjeetourspecial.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/revibatewikovuwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/31701468407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb95518d67e---12548437407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d13e2d3307---74511602651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hiddencliff.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210708_1FA02976CFC7490C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=print+handwriting+worksheets+alphabetPDF 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_off0000d2f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2F3 16836 bytes
SHA-256: 801c265a2f1b832823a7881b3af9fe3f4a37ac4454c28bfa70a95ee01293ef6c
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001169f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1169F 10988 bytes
SHA-256: 30bdabeee8bb7e461e1e565b5b2ffd29b50ca9f2f4e22ed495fca533c8f292e6