Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1904e94a831f7a86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-06-18 08:00:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c89adefc4d3092cf8a7354805e8b8a73 SHA-1: afa5e24c85f8ef60abf0f378b9027845f0bf2c5e SHA-256: 1904e94a831f7a865c1e118ff41a03d7c08c4f6499fe3642fb6cf99f3ccd9fb4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to movie downloads, aligning with a lure for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chaar+sahibzaade+2+full+movie+punjabi+download PDF link annotation
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/69cec597ee55a980969a670abb9e6688/83823155675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19797815995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conblocmanado.com/pics/file/gusude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iamsoldierfit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f384427dd---99441919281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/videfemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinafunnels.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/acki73c29hhfvct49opdkv1mh5/71811117019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/nikuvozigodisazejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d2333ab892---52158528864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jobtmq38u4q62vqdvdiqk801o6/11705286130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.webhisto.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084f1866e431---87277690824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079f430031b9---17292365445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/27799834462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ic4me94g9k2j0rc0i2r9ektgoq/xejolikuwixakolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adfb0d14a12e791a380ec1480825ba84/vedakupekufonuziwipebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c405429fefd426eedd0cf1a2c88d8fd/4422886836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kj8q0nqcpn3rgj2tigosq2a4n7/52094685188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ffd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFD7 5656 bytes
SHA-256: 22d0bf66ffd7d1795f61fbe1c8d9f88d560bb815a805c0bd00f31f5134297a25
font_01_sfnt_off00011305.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11305 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 00c8bdf6df9dc678a50c88146d4e16c05b3bedb5b833884e135b70d0fc30b20c
font_02_sfnt_off00013996.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13996 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2