Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2fd43e62226b1d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 12:00:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 33f938769af0a5ef78092d8dc62a8844 SHA-1: e0ee2c0cf6408ec50c63f570801662c511fcc839 SHA-256: f2fd43e62226b1d072df21d9bb284f6700ce131ffa883ae61b9b64d9faa82746
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. The critical heuristic 'SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE' indicates the document attempts to solicit sensitive recovery secrets or private keys from the user. The presence of numerous links to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting suggests a phishing or scamming operation, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qo0evudgtdmqg2gtnv3ggblf1o/tizuwivaked.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096dd81cafc5---11186006453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artdealer.vn/upload/fckimagesfile/f545106528da18ac574d40add65e193d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1l9fe3bc4prdna0j5idvg8d32u/ronipiwipuxudif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muguet.fr/sites/default/files/file/915527843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/96903887384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vishalsahni.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26385442370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.si/upload/86681027182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landatur.com/files/galeria/files/53820690902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfonsoguiggiarchitetto.it/userfiles/files/bezabiwivenalubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongbaycruises.org/upload/files/vinetimifokabakekesagoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d2aa726d1---88320645557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camberwelltaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/xisap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ce19c38ebb---17891752091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f950f828b999f6d8487337b69a6c40b/80496095146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/29918413770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holycrossyouthministryasp.org/clients/f/fa/fa15eac34f6f8ef5a8ada011ffef1578/File/gupaziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/noxaluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/menodariwepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f98q6pd5gssl70eoj28uru9kb4/85653803422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e15d7fe8f---6975245608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082714e4e0f1---76423821462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gusanhightec.com/userData/board/file/gifosiwokevirumame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609498760afe9---buwatabitebodasokujogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+pdf+reader+installerPDF 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_off0000e1f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1F4 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 8747a5d63ecc13103ad55e26cc29d1c2df0753036ee6f7a702cf093f9ab916e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001122c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1122C 16448 bytes
SHA-256: 58a576f667dbc72b81b4b1a200b8fd051d2b81dc80a00d818ae417725e96c5b4