Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1281bc02b81ce09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 17:02:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 73121ca400ced4bb7319cfb2eb27aac3 SHA-1: 04e56c72d8a49627665137b6c2129b72aaa82d25 SHA-256: f1281bc02b81ce0957388d33d1be480417487b692d285991a5a1e796dec81a47
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malware. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document may instruct users to decrypt an archive, a common tactic to bypass security scanners. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://fivetc.net/uploads/files/24768535766.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://collectifff.be/imgdb/accueil/files/23756218459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hortherbpublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/81894891234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anhhuynoithat.com/asset/files/81003023118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursverwaltung.fit-n-essen.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20963048009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sziazsauto.com/uploads/files/winew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasekurzy.cz/userfiles/file/setumokaxipatase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drxzhang.com/userfiles/file/lojidodevogunumor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epagneuls-bretons.fr/caningest/images/file/somugixefog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drivingschool-brno.cz/files/files/dizibefozuritelev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161420d8fdc258---23195148754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uran-berlin.com/userfiles/file/94618858354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kujainspectors.com/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/92401843362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.q-jin.ne.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9683182823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/papeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artgreen.vn/attachment/files/kuzavonunanifexoked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133e56db0095---zuxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikorti-iao.com/userfiles/files/rojoxiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benly-carson.com/product/files/magetukiwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleanenergy.mn/uploads/files/kixebanomomasujafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-kursk.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/lumenofezebofabidimukeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc580.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-9-1/20210901223753628152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zit-tech.com/userfiles/files/18562260421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/wumozanaxujurige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613328d13bf67---14358501682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=traffic+and+highway+engineering+4th+edition+solution+manual+pdfPDF 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_off0000be2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE2F 11408 bytes
SHA-256: 8dc9f7c01674a8605a2c04acb8df3c4b4708674269783b665fd0315a0a5b01b5
font_01_sfnt_off0000d8d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD8D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f0ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0EA 17316 bytes
SHA-256: 0a667696bf4b36dcf25621077439bdd6224f809a7c33d582762d831dd27ef536