Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0390a95afc424709…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-07-24 07:27:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 116ff084256b555e96bcca78f7394fd2 SHA-1: a761cdbe4132cdad7482528276fc159becad08b2 SHA-256: 0390a95afc42470956515a4e974b0354efac1ad55ba747908b7bf26061616c46
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Multiple heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to various PDF files hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports the intent to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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 http://harc-ias.vn/Images_upload/files/82826015020.pdf
    • https://digireg.at/upload/96316283664.pdf
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/wanebisofezixuzipiba.pdf
    • https://stegopackaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e97oulaptbsjqb5vsp3dphjqn/94253799536.pdf
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4333d7ad95---beduxadakomejigifibulel.pdf
    • http://sz-nuoyi.com/Upload/file/2021072407292730910.pdf
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087202a72fd9---22816561466.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f245798d5e---28578726492.pdf
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/gokuworagamal.pdf
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f7793d1e3---90431752976.pdf
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/mevugodirepani.pdf
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/bifopa.pdf
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/nowuxolerezimuwijoz.pdf
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/mediwalabi.pdf
    • http://splogservice.ru/content/file/suruvebekodamidawam.pdf
    • http://www.celso.org/download/begufuvafunimo.pdf
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ec0647a1d---dowetazuko.pdf
    • http://fst-uinsu.net/userfiles/files/xalotagikavapaba.pdf
    • https://roomart.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ludeditugig.pdf
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7vh5bf7t94imuif1c2dmk2n963/59688901747.pdf
    • https://fermuar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098307177ba2---xapiwesivumaxutusesutu.pdf
    • http://heninrealty.com/userfiles/files/52107248982.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=joker+bathroom+dance+piano+sheet+music
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f057.bin
b31625e36630d417f20b9c4895f123051428deedb8b63b4d76ac4fb3957ac2f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF057 17436 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011e34.bin
2c469dc2aede1ef58bf60a2172f9cb66efabb828933ee8cb7732f74c3d9aef38
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E34 11056 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013797.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13797 16792 bytes