Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0865742af0ee866c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-04 13:47:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 5208e5ab761ea6ce1d48dece37c6771b SHA-1: 5ee34ce04d3bcf9351a68a7cdb9cb5c80bd899ae SHA-256: 0865742af0ee866c8b271cbdbfaa647892e9a02ba03eadec47ad1e5e4279a69c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the attack pattern of luring users to download a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0pek3cr3bud00gptbhkscn82v8/43711507186.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.erenang.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ce2179a0e---likikofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://envida-nieuws.nl/bsb_website/upload_fck/file/sosodegigigurok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160829102475c2---7343446306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6a114d2a1---21897664261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carpanea.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4dc8acfb9dec3443d229ae193fdec58/26399191719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.franklinwebdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609458d77749d---35716489422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labotinnghia.com/img/files/fewojegazudelet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8a271a41538cb255442cd3afd9df37f/419830462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3765669c3532369fce538cd2e72bc9b9/9184662637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8883da329---91591493241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mellorymotors.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15324760030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dnepropress.net/files/file/50901227428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nano-vip.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84807694593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3236ef95f8c4f35b494a73b7b49260bb/linegimeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdd7cbd85caa7b22f530b86bc147fd95/58692326042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830b23c2011---tukubopazozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160add756f3140---mefupiputepefivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duetsepolno.pl/userfiles/file/84037015797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enjoy.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/fuwepopowibebonon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=about+tinikling+dancePDF link annotation
    • https://sharpspringwww.kinsta.cloud/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b372dbd85d780ed8893c9feeca83fb62/vowiwusu.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_off0000e905.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE905 17880 bytes
SHA-256: bbdaf9ebc3cb64aaef1c9d54c3b55e80a89cc3f345a8fb53d8bf47697cca684f
font_01_sfnt_off0001178e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1178E 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 721d302b8be665b9fab1309dd2d7eccdb1d88cb4c6ea3963dae672678541337c
font_02_sfnt_off00012fa9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FA9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1