Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1816b2f41968d6c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 02:34:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 38de54d1c4adf09f9e66ad8ec8b8e057 SHA-1: a879a0643efedab55cb52aad7ffd95b6d03749a8 SHA-256: 1816b2f41968d6c2e8be3f7c7d28dc661bf0a4ca0f8763509d388987266348ea
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. Multiple heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to various compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely to download further malware. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a malicious intent to trick users into executing a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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 http://tokyoracing.hu/userfiles/file/kogalodevovenu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/buberonezorurom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agroadvanced.com/app/webroot/newsletters/editor/files/padutororatulilumud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/57111946784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btsis.com/upload/ckfinder/files/52449405599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e446b06ee7b---34131279945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feach.ie/images/uploads/file/27814040068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelstore.ru/upload/files/40885757680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advik.net/userfiles/file/67574303839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a391f44906c---98554256561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henghuitong.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210813234604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4de42f34a3---mezeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dfe137c8db6c776929150a2a14fe64b/23735969831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blissworldbeauty.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/59131464256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d2f7ca4c1d7---72717597380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f1a9a4107fcd455342633864662d78e/54109233156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arci-mp.fr/admin/File/71689433366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-22/20210522015248145297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fs-select.com/images/blog/file/28380005070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65ac0a01f6a865968a4ce72c868a5f1b/nuwomuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liburnia.pl/userfiles/file/46566745874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarhuskortet.dk/images/file/89617953737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gryfarmerskie.pl/pliki_wyswig/files/sivixebusivewewedudari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928d11c2890---1342615396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v4r3vi4ibp68c27kepje87jbkk/kotejufilidukunozipena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samavetpharm.com/userfiles/files/72725490136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=online+pdf+converter+software+free+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_off0000db1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f335.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF335 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 7a39b82c7f75eef75a647d6fb64f6f9fea69d33160d966b3db4813f491bf73b6
font_02_sfnt_off00010c43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C43 18480 bytes
SHA-256: 8d23ff33867c9d11a8edfba4d1313e9ccac861c9384f275ee4bba086a2cc9004