Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fc9fdc1f0977c12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 15:07:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 418a590a0a591b15d0d1f4568e1ba913 SHA-1: d34a8d0bef80b6ebf92791ef5d7185969a2e6ef7 SHA-256: 1fc9fdc1f0977c12022e2de632dd5fb4daeb41967c2366d5e4ed5ab4ef516446
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/nomuxawaxazenepakis.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bocion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35670447050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42663373344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zifu-tech.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/97843430550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbzgogo.xyz/web/img/podborky/files/didebatowunosupejukotufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaan121.com/uploads/files/202109081149259738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novelinternationalschool.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21515183997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/jobenutupamisetav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiecarriere.it/uploads/file/durolerozevatawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samajsutra.com/userfiles/files/ribofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613932120e4e3---vumigivotigadukalaturuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/60582017484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vicareyou.com/userfiles/file/47847907312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com/file_fck/file/juguwupozewudeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congnghiepxd204.vn/upload/files/vamujafuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161394bffcaf99---tesusamepobiluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ee75e47ddc6d58381606ce370964d73/lanavuwezubosovotad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomgiongvip.com/uploads/files/file/17085233205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/24131652120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrix-corporation.com/upfiles/editor/files/96005371854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patrickstaxi.fr/userfiles/file/26346360934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paneldeconsos.com/userfiles/file/kagokavotutosiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhambra.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/zapejimotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijtm.in/userfiles/file/nidufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dzido.pl/userfiles/file/wafivoxudogawofaxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsixiang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210903032817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=poweramp+download+apk+full+versionPDF 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_off0000c8c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8C8 10904 bytes
SHA-256: df8031260fb8c0269e781b17a5fec9934693ffe0cd896bf7990d0964bba6acce
font_01_sfnt_off0000e20d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE20D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1F 17428 bytes
SHA-256: cd8489d59e6e134273752d8ab710c5ba4f93631058958be5172736edc431b759