Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2125d6860e6a5dc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 07:45:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 39bfe0177bc6bfa3cb06f28fb5d54768 SHA-1: 049428488b70bbd887a305a7466415d9d3294345 SHA-256: 2125d6860e6a5dc176c33a30837eb72e2d38e6b689b91f560cdfb825dd6fccd4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier returned a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://cissud.eu/uploads/ck_editor/files/90890802919.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thaisomboonautopart.com/userfiles/files/70779473337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schachverein-marchhoefe.ch/fcsr/news/upload/file/bepinuzufesogagufevug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aaaffde8a8d94f2c98875d07da06fe57/28997617180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasteofruraleurope.eu/upload/File/tajix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aliencosmicexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae7716ad6c2---zepivaluroganoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3098bbe255671acc04814f99605abef7/55666525534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biometria.pl/photos_fck/file/nugixofax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malagi.pl/user-files/fck/file/90087079144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexdisinfestazioni.com/userfiles/files/87840110313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077cbec17b53---51451051831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canphantich.net/Images_upload/files/91269986860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemanssrl.it/file/xumibopagotagile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://splhardware.com/UploadFile/file/2021081017444073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nousgarage.com/userfiles/file/24590665051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b96aa146a75f3711193291cccbfb8ba3/66082929946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarshelter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fokabuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/16040429736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistarelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/foliwitowilabagofuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af51ac34a33---vufelif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chokmanee.com/userfiles/file/wevenuxuzadidenikawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/feruguniwotusugulojege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed0750afc6---62282183274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecateengenharia.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64505794732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=train+time+table+chart+pdfPDF 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_off0000ee44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE44 17892 bytes
SHA-256: eba454ee4b4ba25361a5f8ab5ba08a40398bd5383d1d339ad4878c1077299300
font_01_sfnt_off00011b5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B5E 10700 bytes
SHA-256: d1b9e0d20de4131ee859d9fea512a709437c2c24ebcf4d23d1c46515c0014f03
font_02_sfnt_off0001336e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1336E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1