Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1729321785971445…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 09:32:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b84204eab26a6d925a2d75712f12e94a SHA-1: 1fa75500794c3301bfc32135e3a5ba8dabd3ff42 SHA-256: 17293217859714459de678d06d67df329417ba9951f67b57d461d8ec94d8ff30
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content or phish for information. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=live+wallpaper+app+free+download+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed88fb940a---79204828645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/kerewavovafilumatizaxojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/57765090643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flairpens.ru/uploads/file/53192102062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sys-svinding.dk/userfiles/file/tudazomafowoluson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sterlingsez.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jazafuvolufebofujebizew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundlight.ca/home/foun6192/public_html/files/custom_files/file/20040840444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://car-zone.sk/data/data/file/83935771401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog/file/voveriguviferepajoxugimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135f49a3f9a7---80415551786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138401cb922c---nonalonubosutaromezuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adice-area.com/pictures/files/dovoguxujujike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumieretvie.com/userfiles/file/vatojomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestocktool.com/d/files/wudenukesup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szhlfz.net/upload/jijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flyingkirin.com/uploadfiles/file/030502008010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nnetworks.com/files/others/rokud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fosterfreezesantarosa.com/uploads/files/xoroxovasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu/data/editorfile/66360858346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somersetcountybar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/redamonukibigufeviguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhhyhb.com/uploadfiles/files/pixidapitigikezid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tuabogadoangel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9b7a727ac2c95dad33972eb93814201/koziwuginoduwasesunekufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tko.wavedev.net/img/files/files/11348888582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96659134164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://illinoislivestock.org/userfiles/file/26656437408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/lofujonawopux.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_off0000dc5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC5C 16804 bytes
SHA-256: dae8f5a36a2d4573b9bf2333579b19d12f006a0ebf1c67e16dc28e588dd4cab7
font_01_sfnt_off00010836.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10836 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001204d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204D 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 8960e053d6601f622c103cdf272ff9625a94c68e78ecb3551b0f3142de630d79