Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2440f11885aa2bd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.1 KB Created: 2021-06-25 02:55:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: f061e3a9264cb463fc84a1979fb2c3bd SHA-1: 7303895252d34a7f0470d4c03dc654c2af6df0c3 SHA-256: 2440f11885aa2bd05e0d63d54c231ac8c804884bb23ba873edfee78a6ad94579
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of numerous external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/8449193281.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zjpjxt.cn/upload/uploadfile/file/10210142496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growlocals.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0ae05b65f18378d979ed797894a81a1/ziwesilidiminuxogamomij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.norestim.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b24dc0514fb---44903619362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53bc21939167012c0ff3e780ee671e91/94780856819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associacaoguainumbi.org.br/wp/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091a1765eb91---ruvinufozaduxima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/muleganasom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b611c4ea261---dewuzetawabeterubuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidnheaven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a496e8438---9958703527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rclurie.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ae767324435cafcb45ae4d83a11e41a/xivixekavejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photo-preiss.com/upload_files/files/xadigokiguvefiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bf379b2c2f---weginovijirugekexeratikor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://louvre.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/87913519899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/676e43fe60ec202b87448760e946f389/fepijiluduxesadobuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/bozasikowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-gypsum.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160980c6b252ec---31087194826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=art+of+verbal+war+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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000132a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132A8 5136 bytes
SHA-256: bab5b14044a0f57ba576a9b7905d2ee1873b76cc38b199cf5fe783ad7560af52
font_01_sfnt_off00014447.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14447 11548 bytes
SHA-256: 8b08ced9e1fe34bec45b35e5cba6a8b3a9f785c184891814e94d043cf938df32