Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 261380cd8196a3f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 05:42:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ebb96ba60bc934825cd1a9cb19f6e4d5 SHA-1: 7f3a03e3a8e641454757c96637609ac9b87b34f4 SHA-256: 261380cd8196a3f9b5d507476bb9a3a5acf117fa36e4ad6b78fcc1c969cc9b64
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to phishing pages. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=foil+method+examples+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c003c9ce936---nizalutenegasogozisubamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doitsolutions.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/71b187c2e27563ad61a70f3abda668f6/negevivumigerukenelumuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fa6e2ca2bfa904e81c69e57a5d76f4c/83323124780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74a65adlp8r23t8l9su0m5clf0/20522207702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohana1bbq.com/uploads/files/viluxopejenagari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7998345958---7565430377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b280d8a69ff---japokediguvunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimalsada.com/pics/file/57815560847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/fexisiredogejaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3e93c06ab---dukevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tavernadelsnoguers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05bfb373e6d2fd9afec9678b105034b7/24764665833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8q229sjd3ul19s46f1jgbj4suj/18054402157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://secureyun.cn/uploadfile/file///2021072315270873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timelessmebel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f1d5c4980314fed34ce55066aa712aa/gekisaguwikilol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windcampus.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a86ca1b3c18---tavuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/kesajupeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/6604067452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://118highschool.am/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8611a3462837123e60a2a1594646c575/jozolukamigivukatanuwaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nordicaluminium.ru/userfiles/file/wujatodojapeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vroa.pl/chplusfiles/file/voxapojusuxujusuviza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/99906580282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetplus.com/userfiles/files/sugilokukajafexuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongcohonda.com/userfiles/file/lonixoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danchrisjewelry.com/userfiles/file/12867856883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idroter.org/userfiles/files/pimavodokidikozoferiv.pdfIn 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://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_off0000e543.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE543 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD55 19068 bytes
SHA-256: c0dae2223ae6b3113e319a83d882dfa4b0f6fa46e8001c2df8eb47f58d7d474d
font_02_sfnt_off00012e62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E62 10824 bytes
SHA-256: a65f27d36076ef1194fc7fede4a8ddc1feb1a0cfab1bd8c0b2ee87d10cd67fb4