Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 265501071156f4f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:37:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: df18fbe71ee3f0d2058b0b324dd1d8a0 SHA-1: 4936e909827ef7d7e7bf2329498a770421aee4ab SHA-256: 265501071156f4f56642be3d41295d953b82cc034216bafd9428a958a8495422
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other unknown hosts, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a heuristic indicating a visual download button further supports the phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://stasta.com/userfiles/file/97149173683.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1puk5iftulg4jp0gnkvre5otd5/55405504748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///nuwifiwolal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c6fba6f4bb---muwabikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d8af175283---90477776026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/46290941783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gonvvama.net/filespath/files/20210824144523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c025fe5bdbfdfe53a2a98684df264e56/61680096980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b741531f7---35010420404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurekaelearning.com/upload/news/file/47847506864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/lanibukamex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8542d96def---1542433520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/22272421298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summithigh75.com/clients/867147/File/kosigejer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11422f575fa7a86814c5c51805af2801/92993157644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbfeahwarn6ac1adp3fb2p.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/85111280888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/24322338913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushigonewildtogo.com/uploads/files/10389797239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/2433039534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/giwudilozufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timandlor.com/userfiles/file/perazexowivezuxufetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entone.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26e435f8c87abd6625217c73624af7da/10046015212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbda3962390---kitijoseropeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=programa+convertidor+de+word+a+pdf+downloadPDF 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_off0000d672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD672 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE89 10948 bytes
SHA-256: b488b51b9f4f0588074b5498b51c7e462c038511c5e918f27c4366fdd2c6f565
font_02_sfnt_off000107c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107C3 18088 bytes
SHA-256: 7bbd157847271f82e3b643df4d7cd28839b458e8c7521c30edb382d05045e946