Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe3bfe6ad9f377f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 19:04:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: dfd0a4383117e12f601cf1d4d450bfea SHA-1: dea522b6b6ad76b27f342edd5f1140051f01b644 SHA-256: fe3bfe6ad9f377f44a4eea7a83468207a3f4a5bd1641401a4680d0d3157a72b1
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to decrypt or access a password-protected payload, a common social engineering tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 9

  • 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
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://happy-playground.gr/uploads/_uploads/files/jurerit.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138df378c493---narijufomemixuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://211.129.1.225/system/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86499454525.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://kidneytracker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84501881549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whatproperty.ng/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwodeguv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://walnutcreekguide.com/wysiwygfiles/file/nuniralulatuxamofaxidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pernambucoimortal.com/imagens/files/3556436080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hasmow.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nomumuvozalefozupux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuoriscena.eu/file/18728993821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613052ea249e7---24713072343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelexpert.ro/uploads/files/joziviwufez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulaikhatextile.com/userfiles/files/63764690475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spakimthi.com/upload/files/wusenodopivupasogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05a8f6cfd52608a8a1976913776d6906/zariluxona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgroup.at/tmp/kuxiwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xfswchem.com/upload/files/70445148746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tensoinox.com/userfiles/files/vibotig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belovosushi.ru/files/68441549731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halanmilk.com/upload/files/88392930592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://upnbkk.com/file_media/file_image/file/20695088539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f735295db---67685028068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenet.mn/userfiles/file/11821313057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liavanhaeringen.nl/userfiles/files/69002025135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagabb.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53770058167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=scan+qr+code+on+screen+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_off0000e18b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE18B 10488 bytes
SHA-256: e34f4b8168b4ba4634849fd6699a1f1b60de1e35f8bd033d5a69f64aa438d888
font_01_sfnt_off0000f93a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF93A 18156 bytes
SHA-256: 129c87726a1f4f08dc9ec0cef536643b347ab0af960e5be1effd24714d7bbea5
font_02_sfnt_off00012840.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12840 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1