Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 084236449fcef0c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-07 10:48:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8793135080b97a8a80cb57bc8ee81b7f SHA-1: 9b4d78f41a2ed8122cc9c78219f05a4943315988 SHA-256: 084236449fcef0c371650ea365313617b381c6dc2e68b052b947e416f58aca91
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, with ClamAV identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous external links, including those hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, suggests a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic indicates a potential lure for downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://slide-bearing.com/d/files/xufutuve.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/razele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exmar.it/foto_fck/file/ruxipokive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081bc71500d5---37994100481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/59109845444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hainutedecopii.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xorilojejez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seksdagen.nl/userfiles/file/65581265302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qunjl.com/userfiles/files/ravajasawutunudagaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f4cfeec53e---merefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dprkoreatour.com/uploads/files/jajibukuzeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoteltrip.com/userfiles/file/53176119471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161200b5c8ddcf---najigosotagode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160745761b5390---rajidawomabifagira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e82c649031---jurikema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusburbank.com/uploads/files/69988521426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ever-progress.com/upload/files/12251602434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/11330241418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c68dafe3201fc22d052a026dd4416f2/22141882464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dija.lv/public/userfiles/file/woxirepitolujatokugotev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barbusci.it/maisUserFile/file/14822920362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicpark-live.de/userfiles/file/jonoxukar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andrecampbell.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e87059a750cc19df858e72ec7cf3f010/97683153032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad77d0db235---kegawufor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=ugc+net+notification+2018+pdfPDF 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_off0000f113.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF113 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 6ee95ea3fc4a1da83aee67ec09a0f3019f31df3647d9293c14e440225d529852
font_01_sfnt_off00010aa4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AA4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000122b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122B6 18656 bytes
SHA-256: 49b121fc8a247faf48adf7c618c33c568ab738c929a92a2ba8a31ea08580b292