Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6a5deffccc22420…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-08-25 00:02:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1e673b1534eb3bb80b0a44ea6e28d33d SHA-1: 29a0d7739f64ffdb6475c3d4a6bd6d3244b10cd3 SHA-256: f6a5deffccc224206686b6d44bc092ff0e685d52d876f9b006d26daf9bfe2e9a
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The presence of the 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to download a password-protected archive, a common tactic to evade gateway scanning.

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
  • 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://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33536549805.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://a-kamen.com/userfiles/file/nezufujaval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehnicgaz.eu/files/file/fuvuminiginimazofapowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yuktiedu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50a0001714f92a2b12e14f7088b4cde2/52015020188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalgroupautos.com/files/others/nezaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbixaydungcantho.com/canthomobile2/public/images/sanpham/files/7393605388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermaktif.com/imgup/file/2106284947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debsluxe.com/clients/1/17/174397649ed9f07baa8f9d9f48c72a4d/File/17161905562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogservice.ru/userfiles/file/70609491892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160708bd8b407e---88877042198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.de/userfiles/files/zetokidodelimalozek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gifarlcm.com/upfiles/editor/files/87799978301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7a72c4f46e251773e240366f46efe7b/mofezodobawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s9emcqqea1cvtbpvt1jtfa7bvu/vovimadesuvanekuxasajarel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chalappuram.com/userfiles/file/rumatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cursosgratuitosonline.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/babr6cp9lp9f91njhh7lehh1i1/10191973168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kunmobile.vn/files/uploaded/20210810/file/21819130085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/baxobupimugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehawthornnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607127785bf5d---87071264688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qa-whg.net/upload/files/vikofajixoloteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tavio.ru/files/file/90708869957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infravoip.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a08c84f506ef577f51ae0fe1ef49a624/wezelanufilufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8e37237fede876b85f3c24e3e136ad7/dugiwesugasobosuzijekuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiciliani.eu/userfiles/files/89835966487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fb3d3c2b54---13693590298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=unprotect+excel+without+password+onlinePDF 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_off0000d969.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD969 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 9830a4799c09aa91b99ebecfcbede21ca320a0e51ce3a2fd6a43b592c8c342c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ab4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB4 20748 bytes
SHA-256: 281acb061d31cf944e6967ddd1d0df5752331bce53585d5576941300feb43ca3