Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e989b5f053b5f9a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 22:03:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: 199e69e4475ea32386df977a0568f757 SHA-1: 7d87d0b56daaab7ef06d3278a9f5d411033d6aa1 SHA-256: e989b5f053b5f9a4f3ddc632d61a60cd067e57a4780b25e736c04b9a9aef3991
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. 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. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the password lure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cs+online+club+hacks PDF link annotation
    • http://cdn.eagle.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/lusobonuwumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrenickels.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56794487129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htygroup.com/upload/files/wavewuxasufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hublihorse.com/uploads/userfiles/files/ravopalebub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marlschuz.com/userfiles/files/jixojebakupuwewovija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a7e6b70c23a3ee48579640de3bb4ab21/50354605959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tinhhoaxanh.vn/userfiles/file/81020393849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks-system.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51579964685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sake2metustin.com/uploads/files/roxapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tahi.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zutoguter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xy-interior.com/uploads/files/202109061443194271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b48880b23a---dufimogalunikajimonamuben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivaldelmaridaje.com/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/pegetenumopetuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614497de7b83e---82125825583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.beautyvogue.ch/Files/file/22006909052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pune-india.info/userfiles/file/joniripomisasizupobopeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itena.si/uporabnik/file/55397180668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presentkompaniet.com/img/content/file/54936422191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infoegrafica.com/userfiles/files/nasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://importfoodfair.com/userfiles/image/2021/09/file/mibaxojaxinudamirovize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a25664bcea3049edb3428b3658229c58/97400809596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f19e943ff8bf733b01c15b37cda0baa3/kerutamalikurijita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charmingcurls.se/upload/file/23979905036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://combatkuntao.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/liduguguwav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garantc.ru/userfiles/file/wivobeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://combatkuntao.comIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • 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_off0000daff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAFF 16840 bytes
SHA-256: 66ad0b7d162457a18caf856ddc6d33adecd357717be3b4b4a0e195b6e289a6ad
font_01_sfnt_off00010707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10707 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F1E 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 9459cbe728f461a164cfb18ff01d5bc9eaf0d1059e35720c596ed737bb367898