Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb4d056704929e59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:46:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: ffc2552e14ff9a79216ef84e33554c5c SHA-1: c5b42bc608bcc819158c20c2a936d68bcc5a95c1 SHA-256: eb4d056704929e59a7384c1c27066f9765eef59354bf56adcf6ae37b50fc6f2f
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. The critical heuristic 'SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE' indicates the document's intent is to solicit sensitive recovery information from the user. Numerous URLs were extracted, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or distribution mechanism for further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160841c338b0c2---runijukeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d9800e6da---zubesafobosobivivufuwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rford67613.com/clients/a/a2/a20594cba7d6fe247bc87ef9b80620db/File/nafinogenufatavivoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etabetasurvey.com/userfiles/files/meniwuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primehorseproperty.com/userfiles/files/ninejolujaxasawedilidinud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu78.ru/userfiles/file/lapegozesapelevuxirijoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starinviter.com/ckimagefiles/89248666438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43d2a90d70c984e7e5792acd68943047/40210984344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baominhlabors.com/upload/files/kilojawujobuzebekowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://614move.com/clients/4890/File/2200935066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2b5d997cea---19541920113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/suzadir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markmont.eu/editor_uploads/system/files/86720084304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jojfe4f945pf6tsg200p1vo4rc/43499915329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annamsaigonlaw.com/upload/files/bodapujumokutakunopixewen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/90811314109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/xowifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cellesekorea.com/ckupload/files/tosemogipewemosurilaseze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-8///202181983302580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa083f84757---jusetip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/55129647931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/18922986827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anthonygillant.com/userfiles/file/bujujarivoduwuwenujorawiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=burp+suite+alternative+for+androidPDF 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_off0000f590.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF590 10708 bytes
SHA-256: c5c58861fc173e0e43036a9ff9fcc703ae2e386537d8630c1124bb021070f6f1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E49 18300 bytes
SHA-256: 25ae53b367acd9374bfd334f5c7c6cd12f9c065b3ecd14b011b74a305ba5747b
font_02_sfnt_off00013df9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1