Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0811d714ef390407…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:44:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 720470e8e74ca8d72239b96eee75b9f5 SHA-1: 68ac704cc9f7f41ed158fc7c1fd47e2ee189c9fc SHA-256: 0811d714ef3904070729e214f1bd3ee22600f48d920c8e1815561e386d5329a6
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the document uses a link farm on compromised CMS uploads and presents a fake download button, specifically luring the user to install a browser extension or update. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall pattern suggests the PDF is designed to exploit user trust for further compromise, potentially leading to credential theft or malware installation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613062cfcf79f---12947268228.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thsport.dk/userfiles/file/42245236816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--90aoa5aj.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32684283027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdc25d8084a7a38b22e7f48d934fe558/45221135217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/pipulabatarajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taemyung.com/data/upload/file/71524174992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/86029220917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuwaited.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25520553374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoangeli.it/userfiles/files/56589480798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungotodungha.com/img/files/16445687831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phuquiland.com/upload/files/newatib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morrisjones.co.uk/EditorImages/file/44140139523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/vumeronozufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangkokmagnetwire.com/ecodev_test/image_system/files/6291970266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/fobab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0950fe1f7b5c32506940bf44afc0f28/ladun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--franzsischebulldoggen-lec.eu/userfiles/file/nugijegelodemironovesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed3c37a220---6319497076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trlgpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/8923638856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134fe91c7c83---ritedigulagazebuxakodux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yemany.com/yemfiles/files/wetirepamarumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bxbrdh.marketsearching.com/upload/files/89921828284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrieshorst.nl/images/uploads/file/84364145904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=pixel+painters+minecraft+server+no+premiumPDF 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_off0000df2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF2E 19720 bytes
SHA-256: b24e2da2261cecc400979cb42629395060494834ec97719f96c061b97b0fb176
font_01_sfnt_off00011312.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11312 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 9b839d3413d811fc3ea0cae97d48564ee73daf11e1a695308895e683a5589be4
font_02_sfnt_off00012c69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C69 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1