Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0247ecd281b83ab3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 12:51:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 580871d9ca736bdfb73254f4ba4add63 SHA-1: 058f3aa6075a9eb0b428c40ef064fd0eef8d862c SHA-256: 0247ecd281b83ab30e755b298f9265d0ddb9c68e32f5d957d62ae8d46514a846
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wings+on+fire+endless+flight+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://happycolaborativo.com/uploads/files/78792848977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liqaa-lb.com/files/userfiles/files/75540230114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16074140023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pdfneq4kgg71alndbjngd3rc52/roluvoxuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chonburi33.com/userfiles/file/31887521468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/20177065097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc98e658129beda41b3089e0d0605d39/1490201136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c9698de42---58592579185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iaestedresden.de/userfiles/file/betibovusotuwetupoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0987cf6146c9c164424f83fe9f53d111/guximamozogedoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://top-rubber.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/42312623139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitpchemcieszyn.pl/_sitpchem/file/72283906958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesushiscv.com/uploads/files/82670598250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ducthanggroup.com/webroot/img/files/66074890303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunglamgarden.com/images/fck/file/paraxufinujavijumotof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noticiascgnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23747730796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614486a876f39---71000621801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studioline.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83101003403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expungemyrecordnj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131f857db797---jegutijimesaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9261btptn42v2jhj038mjts906/pasalaziverimeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://istanbulballoons.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zemabojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144b0ab354e5---55016588417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmbbq.com/uploads/files/funekibarodumadet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/rizabazobelenososakojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/jiritobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dfe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFE2 11028 bytes
SHA-256: 118f1625dc18224c55c81c4d9ac03d7d8b6a1cee0cee060dd9be162a95a33084
font_01_sfnt_off0000f922.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF922 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011134.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11134 20736 bytes
SHA-256: 400c3679ec5fa16a62c4c819a6eaa428fdaf5fd27871dfae7ea54ac4d10e944b