Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2854fbafee0a991…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 20:42:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: fe5ee5551ea2ee5d7d501b48ae154344 SHA-1: 64ab29844df9ca4432bce2ec1d131165fe8fa29f SHA-256: f2854fbafee0a991eb5ac0131a7421a27792d3bf7444c95b2bd8e55458b8ebe8
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm hosted on compromised WordPress sites, directing users to download PDF files. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 http://msci.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160889c370efaf---zuzezojadosaveje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608309f1c5cef---55319431503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609198f361ce1---katagamuran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8127cf3c33ebb3d253a7acf9193aa51e/xojisexoposewixesawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.com/userfiles/files/lomovurowugumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2eb80453a---sesatiwuvixulufekedosexiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wajl.net/img/file/2021623685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkihale.com/userfiles/file/kolidimixef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mackielaw.net/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/76861028457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhospitalities.com/images/bulk_images/files/32366009776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakkervoorwinde.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/24935200744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a62f402bf72---nakujiwivon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9opvluuo3a4if0gpn7cr7fpq02/lebifem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbf48b7fd9ee8e94945b5304f06667a5/80695192528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svrcontractors.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96cf24eb5f2a92439845264be5559448/bunupiguze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.freshstartdigitalmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96b0abb90cf306d0c806e6b6f3bd00c5/vezejavetitonivikev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcv-bo.org/data/fcv-bo/userfiles/file/noturalilunilelazolugafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/52347708537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160baccc1ec076---gojedijezisuzujogeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87f1e88ceb---kaduzajivipirexuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83aa37239e---17736693528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseenadventure.com/userfiles/file/lelibagapiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=eye+twitching+for+2+daysPDF 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_off0000d987.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD987 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 9db64b4abefc166eaf2acc5abb7c694b0a5d4b34cea0b953e9d795278695bcc8
font_01_sfnt_off0000f305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF305 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B17 17552 bytes
SHA-256: b6fb85d634c38aa2ea375b1853cbcd6c486905d9b63c5f80e6c85483a54061bf