Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04db58aaac396801…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 05:07:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b4b7410d0b09e82dc01e6cb664fe48a9 SHA-1: 0c4777c9b628af6add02607e726f750903fda9f8 SHA-256: 04db58aaac396801c9a33b2bcb82dd8d094e91faabdc5acd9063f8815166824b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the phishing or malware distribution lure.

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ncert+solutions+for+class+6+maths+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c456063711b---wemegufetezowotup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mldom.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/lusigovikufomutew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balustrady-metalik.pl/files/kimikamamijarogir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/41992437905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://topjobsnepal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23192586779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b808266db41---kibukiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://activesolutionelectric.com/images/file/mitufadedak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kledingindex.nl/images/uploads/56796890817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unesco-mediain.cz/fckfiles/file/titokawuwejapivokojox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atletika-pardubice.cz/files/file/mujel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ivvdd114adokgmk8pcigauc791/40422578950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lapavixes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b5b6105c7007ae7c8d1d214633f47e3/wajasopod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o6u3jh6hen5hcb7d2vj1fjp9ok/wugofiluzesevokijeziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broomfield82.com/clients/4/48/489ff1710263d1ca947d92387d56c809/File/63762951704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dvg.asia/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/24715661457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pakistanchristiancongress.org/userfiles/file/64127346685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiab.net/userData/board/file/dekubeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mim2010.ru/userfiles/file/39393467175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hpjsq3eur5ogqpo6bl9ur0ho4u/foxuborire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d33a10f3411---31066739551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuhappyhouse.com/upload/files/29813519653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33aba0705d1d6f374c98f267cfc2cb8a/bopesapugiremekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607854a5eea16---razanixekisetejexelaxaren.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_off0000d7a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7A1 17000 bytes
SHA-256: f08075132cce25673a4529b406e33f331bc2a532dcd0bc32a4eaff1f61b037a3
font_01_sfnt_off0001041f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1041F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C36 11024 bytes
SHA-256: a267e686416fc01039f7608bb8fdbca0c0803572545de22f265334989af80833