Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1204d8b9f622cfca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.4 KB Created: 2021-07-24 23:56:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 120aea4b0cd16d5f8b644af51314f2a0 SHA-1: 8ec50b1021e24875c9968be830a4f427690a636b SHA-256: 1204d8b9f622cfca19de82f3832c38e6e3b743f25d0a26491d2ca780b8d66e78
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites and a deceptive download button, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://unosms.us/userfiles/file/7341255708.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b967ce08977---71695409270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.novet.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160988fd0de0b4---61348095489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ipf5qe1s2pj4qpcu6v5mgvsftq/90243678451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/98847867860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30361d94c54a85079e0dea2ab5de3714/xojutexix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f80fc6c3a8f---65238628958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vfagbvisv4j5huec01fgniq9k6/66996516045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekdalyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/45377692297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c02102b3dc---74321160579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202107010251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f802c7c56b682d71e08bc7e8656f1672/52252552608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/91534429661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97e2bf718d94ffa547db40c8d2814d50/48781197267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/96176090299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2b970425b1d9afe651c644aa1123c84/85417317261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvkinter.com/file_media/file_image/file/49604617575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tms-operation.com/upload/files/ruvinumalovefanuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maihome.hu/admin1/file/46089896006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96aabd5d9c---kipozinor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdf0b7c76b8---62772594520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac29be94665---zavodujababuxuniduwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=activate+piv+authentication+certificate+on+a+cacPDF 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_off00012742.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12742 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 7efaa2932b0b55089bf0c8294da1c0b0a8de2df0cf24b8f33818d1fc12928286
font_01_sfnt_off00013f32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00015744.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15744 18512 bytes
SHA-256: 713c3388fb62fc20bdf386c724f62613d3ef7af87c8667bcb984f59cb09fa3ee