Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1369e91a741a6547…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.0 KB Created: 2021-06-22 19:10:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: ee6bbd5ac7e1c9388ee06502b25b1d02 SHA-1: 7e71010e6f6ff162c6bd33f876cde38dd8bd41a0 SHA-256: 1369e91a741a65478e53c0bfad6a9ee9e9d6fe7a0347630026f93a402e254984
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://blnk.eu/userfiles/files/46852452078.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd6804059f7---17822919149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba65f4bef9b---56686473992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lso-msm.fr/userfiles/file/sevut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/27009914927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b798c52f5f0---78056374741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accronline.com/userfiles/file/99255634192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ddecbd7eeaef07c9008c5c471aca1e2/nipuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609863a036803---rabezotilifeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimaletto.com/uploads/file/44940774583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e46fbeb376435c23c26acf0f33aec0b2/9917872394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfa2fb750b24b7d2e1d44de82a84bca6/gexiwasopowowexoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srp-galabau-rostock.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gqggai2dbql30vv9d1aqcrgqkt/movizenivigosidowukap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8f56b65f232d170eb8d04a76180b70d/dujuxotadixelegeju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioncenterpoint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01197b681f7f15f4d7e40b61b4f38722/60718515932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=lucent+constitution+of+india+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000122d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122D7 4964 bytes
SHA-256: acf008b40181ebed40bb15d15bb5a077c6fb36c2795b369dd6f7157785c753a5
font_01_sfnt_off000133d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133D7 3720 bytes
SHA-256: d0c9e33916e9e64e42e31bcf0d345f6c2fcd41735b1a34df0119bd0eb1094281
font_02_sfnt_off00013f3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F3B 10724 bytes
SHA-256: e49a965d7ba80c49fe87a515d7a46d892d4166d1f54715a1d0e07981dc028a08
font_03_sfnt_off00016415.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16415 19888 bytes
SHA-256: f5ebbe1fed8dbea0ea507c9438e27834cccd1680f404571d51ba4aa47ffe6598