Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c3e7b04f0045d01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-06-26 21:44:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 320b119ed687d22366ecdf3fe5b80a1f SHA-1: f404efeb6f2031626c5ca98aef03ef8f704407a9 SHA-256: 1c3e7b04f0045d01594c3d9eb10b71fad02fd0ce0900e02142c7ce49775d7af5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download' button lure and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm indicate an attempt to trick the user into downloading a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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 http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/25570582541.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gallery4walls.com/upload/editer/file/nesonodopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c96fd1ff35b2ce28753faf5caf0883f6/12454018202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dazzlingdecor.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bbbeac02a---sufoxopele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marosme.ro/hirek/file/30312925645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac834ac06e2---webasurunugeduviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toddfamilyreunion.com/clients/4/48/482e924d5a052aa4a0c13eb8a30e0bc8/File/38386436615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weblative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/694u67ulu6l4u4uso8durcf020/62729119888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9437e16e69---49218436215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beamstraffic.ae/amb/userfiles/file/73880171499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/590e067249ad0eaaac386c57217d3685/12884585318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/98397945910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160962830bf098---37091168763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b010f456907---tipijelavesemaxirunuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad993445672---duguxaxipodiroxovajewufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608446ab81cbe---votixomofobajopaxaxajeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katyababash.com/images/uploads/file/8543406886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readxyz.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75ad278ee97ff889b67e67c99fbb13bc/vupan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/dezivakuwazadane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba2703850fa---6596860446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1966.net/clients/f/f9/f93f52488d971b5f2372adc2bdb16541/File/vivonakune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160847be2399ac---wesoxejix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blsfamilyreunion.com/clients/1/11/11e20eb1c47c3498ff3e66fc1941d138/File/99239530401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+spell+paper+in+spanishPDF 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_off0000f194.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF194 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000109ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109AB 10680 bytes
SHA-256: d4807a4999fdbe3106195d11a3b9936fda9bd1e6dedeb82c4a3b1e48675b3097
font_02_sfnt_off0001220b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1220B 20648 bytes
SHA-256: b8e38eb7a3cf67b29af3b2422749da54eb069b10d576d30a2fb649c70dfbca45