Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0292c5d1205bdd2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 05:34:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: b010fccae51fe8b95c6ce39371bfe73e SHA-1: e2129720b63a9d40da5bc3342efb74536696a34e SHA-256: 0292c5d1205bdd2cdf3928f0739a8b5cf64ab0d5ed217665b1cbb06c7e1076b1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a pattern of using such hosting for these links, suggesting an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination or evade detection. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=brown+and+lee+teaching+by+principles+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/78903544132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f9ff554e35b5b58c09e84a12de899ed/zowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogeologicotrilobite.com/userfiles/files/27613590766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michellenevinracing.com/FCKeditor/file/1514861485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aleeblog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n105m73gnnd6uqtflv62h1cie7/51565500985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagm.it/userfiles/files/sanesepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erainbowrealty.com/userfiles/file/taloxapeputepuxuzajefawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bakotech.at/uploads/ckeditor/files/26789741892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pratham.one/file/linejaxodoxoxivasisabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinag7furniture.com/app/webroot/files/editor_upload/files/63438846759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://27derajat.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/87189236017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casadko.fr/userfiles/file/fazimerejewarimenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfect-gallery.com/userfiles/file/ligebilituxipevoxajilex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalnoboy.com/data/filestorage/upload/files/88780608907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lijoxuxojituvovulijumoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomuraca.eu/userfiles/files/lifojenifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906130707220408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedfightalliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78808798879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isitekmuhendislik.com/userfiles/file/pojufiwomeremenibazaxore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sluchatka-shop.cz/files/upload/files/92824247489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deborahmayerlawoffices.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gizuwikojirukol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexovomuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c89c9c4d9b964c50ffa393e444976c92/68283061434.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_off0000ebde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBDE 11292 bytes
SHA-256: 02490305f598059f7a28d61b920186c731807ec1caed84f501ca01b053b272b7
font_01_sfnt_off000105f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F2 17272 bytes
SHA-256: c9ca8e0c34c33ac8d42e85c30d8edf7037b19af494d2c07961ea8536894f68e6
font_02_sfnt_off00013298.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13298 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1