Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f18a5e5b58578e0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 14:55:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5cab4682d5d75f0d1857e03e275ac29e SHA-1: 476759aa271efd2f4df99412ff84e9ca6af3bbbd SHA-256: f18a5e5b58578e0e6e2ce76b2de5328da0fb7f95f534e319369f7a731dd61f34
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various PDF files hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's purpose is to trick users into believing they need a password to access an archive, a common tactic to bypass security filters for malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tarasti+hai+nigahen+song
    • http://sdds.be/userfiles/file/pegijuxulubas.pdf
    • http://4rrecycle.com/files/file/67515220402.pdf
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/24561503993.pdf
    • https://topinsolventa.ro/userfiles/file/67108921535.pdf
    • http://studiophotosfashion.it/userfiles/files/ratatetiwanobibu.pdf
    • https://producedepot.us/userfiles/files/zofovavu.pdf
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fc0ca4727c---risijaleviworigatamivowu.pdf
    • http://yuli-china.ru/d/files/ginosakotedofopene.pdf
    • http://hsaltsj.com/uploads/files/pusutobexo.pdf
    • http://driscollandgibson.com/images/edit_images/file/22009298436.pdf
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161374be52ae66---motapaguxadomakukuwufo.pdf
    • https://sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134f1db28c8c---pixakuzekatupi.pdf
    • https://mcq.bmtinhoc.vn/InteriorWeb/images/images_news/files/86818767436.pdf
    • http://uniquecharacters.com/upload/files/lopamuverozox.pdf
    • http://braciszewska-klimek.pl/fck_files/file/potoz.pdf
    • https://hmjrgoldhockey.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc1144d5e0d2cb70bfe837f18389371d/vewetu.pdf
    • https://legyenegyjonapod.hu/userfiles/files/rakarira.pdf
    • http://galluccifaibano.it/userfiles/file/56042545496.pdf
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/081253559684.pdf
    • http://zxpgw.com/userfiles/file/jumelogeravi.pdf
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/jipurodisazotasa.pdf
    • https://sanghvicranes.com/staging/media/74220758581.pdf
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/27970489179.pdf
    • http://hnsunnyfood.com/d/files/61811581712.pdf
    • http://geotersrl.it/file/31149508259.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c820.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC820 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e037.bin
bd9e94191983b36c77f0022f45fd40d3a34d725a2cb2e06da2113a0a6e6eebd2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE037 10304 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f764.bin
de30234966130b72a429a941b67afb7c34868962ca742179da49bb5ac1aa9a2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF764 21328 bytes