Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1185eca813961749…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-11 00:08:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 908dbdadabafb555c561f5c4dd6559e2 SHA-1: 86d7d069f08e8c41f1c83f26621035ecce561bfb SHA-256: 1185eca813961749a1e2347ee341363d058f3905e49a7006dda74932a2cbbba3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains a link farm hosted on multiple disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files or redirect users to phishing sites. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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 http://sangtaoad.com/uploads/userfiles/file/96504989442.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://abwnickersonplaza.com/uploads/files/16781261481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elliptical-trainers.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jesogesinafenopow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eva.am/files/718bfdb4e8dfc6fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolfroccatiassociati.it/userfiles/files/47872164175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hajnysport.cz/FCK_userfiles/file/vunifurel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1efd9be0a07719ee5d596f61c6ffa329/55431828471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-4/20210904210404387620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abaj.cz/UserFiles/File/pepamalinamol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motty-etai-sharon.com/files/files/kijubon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aranykoronakft.hu/userfiles/file/gejorodisasuwatavutew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents/files/noligabafizesorek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b1b2d00145---69092708776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161321f192208a---varinawuliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.ru/upload/36255792496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pixel-pro.ru/upload/file/sewebakozufuvazeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://packagingandfoodmachinary.com/userfiles/file/rititig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kingwrapcarspa.com/upload/files/95151054935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gordostcrista.ru/userfiles/file/mavuxiwutakari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiny-baby.com/fileimage/file/35187449010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nattukoottam.com/userfiles/file/30467556916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aragonemprendedor.com/userfiles/files/rifavurupobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f45fa3f813---pesefituzagosatokuripevew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=gta+sa+android+files+downloadPDF 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_off0000d754.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD754 17432 bytes
SHA-256: becd54a60d28e5b2d32aa09feb9537efc856ffd15c674f9b9fa7a4a9daf986ec
font_01_sfnt_off00010457.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10457 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 235ade41ffa64e4773cd5a0c3e769c314893609147416d1c5d70fc828cde08b9
font_02_sfnt_off00011c5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C5A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1