Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 280aefab641843b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 15:26:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: bd883a42c7bca9d1dd26857be6cf5d38 SHA-1: 48940ac79e511535536eace687ba9a5f4cc5a681 SHA-256: 280aefab641843b4920862d79f27688706e8ccf8663388aeea1d194fc064d70b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7c5383278---97080661700.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://skuplaptop.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832a0c9fb88---99219258760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d6061c4730---67850470805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae0edacb71b---fabizupaputovir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancleaningservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/41e19096ac8de10c5d8b175e29c62ebb/govomiloleza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073f47aabd52---mexevudawozebapaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dintek.eu/uploads/file/83352836790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8cce948b27---mebivixizomagipewadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.redactordecontenidos.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080a5af871d6---mimosaneweruda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090cb5c7d53b---junonasow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heilpraxis-pankow.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075b67b3688e---2021436655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdmsig.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zadelilunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/40025471565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/khp6adeh75b9b169pn8pouegn2/silojazemawosaligigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d200350f65---24882898086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/rixuzere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-insurance-broker.de/downloads/41910502450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orrizon.ru/images/file/28422545527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dbcef7d025a---20172496395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iapp3pqpu3pomtvcbbodqnoaf7/zefizuzikiletifapejedik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacpartner.net/images_client//imagesfile/43984422043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e04339d20577a4cd975c36239554b9a9/93032508486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=hotel+sea+view+bar+and+restaurantPDF 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_off0000c7a4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7A4 16380 bytes
SHA-256: bf3a47324bce98415185eafc8dd17a7bd1cfb3c3e7cf62d4fa3ffb52523e66ef
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B6 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 892fbcaad8d1ed1ed4f774cad3858236b10ed3f21584559015026f61ac6be6fd
font_02_sfnt_off00010a2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1