Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 113905e059fe01b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 20:53:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ce5222ab2cfe66e20c29f45901b1ae8c SHA-1: 0b6a20e3d3bc1f3e1fb3167a9777ea2d5ac48f47 SHA-256: 113905e059fe01b510a9b3beecdf18578835d2d17151b16812ba460f6e08bf8c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites or disposable domains. The presence of a 'download button' lure further suggests an attempt to trick users into clicking malicious links.

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dbz+vs+naruto+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/simesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kungfuclasshongkong.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vadafupebofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kanalizace-ul.cz/userfiles/file/2106465260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chowdhurytourism.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61556107710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satcomlink.com/userData/board/file/30005960420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8nu3l4uvu2l37u3rp36mtgmepv/2231942972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.taxivanclass.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/77351667153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didula.com/img/file/reloburatelepiwas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///wokiwewagejubebidujen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promptcorporate.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55225803559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vyaspublicschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9500087673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schuetzenfest-hemeringen.de/ablage/userfiles/files/27190255002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ncdesign.it/userfiles/files/tizatefipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkeyinsurance.info/images/file/27425147820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsreloading.com/userfiles/files/31813434882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slovoveri.org/userfiles/newudofawamipefunotas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/komesew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/15714815819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cybernet.asia/UserFiles/File/tedademek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindliving.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/56163356616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prospekt-rostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/detezapulomuditomul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liepasmuiza.lv/userfiles/library/83806406456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gintaras.cz/userfiles/file/64317214000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614038add4805---32061502919.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_off0000dd44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f55b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF55B 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 647e4d7dac5392a51df98ebcc8150796461a9664e596c42385c664243c4b343f
font_02_sfnt_off00010d0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D0B 21592 bytes
SHA-256: c9e4c879efa257336b240157797e5d3ce292cccac278a3be4bca59f6b655de45