Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0586f584ea7d6164…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:07:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 253b8577c8c96938c72ba703cdebd380 SHA-1: ad0943f1880b4472e8a35a7b7ce8a69124e46d7c SHA-256: 0586f584ea7d6164af26516fdfc40cf36aab787a75597b771f36a4405c35749d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely to lure users into downloading further malware or engaging in phishing activities. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this phishing 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://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g1quuu497hr7npmomn9k2kv1v4/zovebinakume.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://loaamtran.vn/files/usersfiles/files/78857891264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/84400893225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd5a3734d2d---28997672028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phamtrangia.com/upload/files/likixinomodup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://addsfly.com/userfiles/file/lejolemitonona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-gallery.mn/uploads/files/45370355352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaness-sens.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pekevajuguxozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/kida2018/ck_imgs/files/daxoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rffsev.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/224ee85dad8395c6c61940056ae40fb6/poporafemiker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v2linod71r69tkstbcro9eii62/39072872585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roosprommenschenckelfoundation.nl/userfiles/file/61605373465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsm62.org/uploads/news/file/revidiruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leicht-spb.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa2f4b8d929d99313b3009fa07fb49cc/77177578700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160760c51d44dc---2126546624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beribuket.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53c96a7a291e8104be9f7c7972bcdabf/73276298735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075766711591---zamuzowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/xexovidodumax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morgancountyoh.com/userimages/50669316609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caribsplash.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a1a50d1c6f---wakefem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsoa.cn/userfiles/file/17424169443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ssc-ras.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59347132683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technology-mp.it/userfiles/files/30504645047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panificioilcavaliere.it/userfiles/files/20202816692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/803aa7f1b0161b1ba54fbd4999ca00b5/lepexakolibitalawax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=konica+minolta+bizhub+c368+service+manualPDF 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_off0000dd2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD2B 11400 bytes
SHA-256: 69fcce0b40dfcab303e4800cc2443c537ed06210ddfaa7bccca1fd2ff7a2a201
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7F1 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 69b6b6b4f7ae0018f71b2aa4361142b97886bf10e5f6b93c06474d7c91b32b13
font_02_sfnt_off00012429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12429 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1