Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 289ce8fe1da68ab0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-14 00:16:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 65d016eec6fb8bfc1549d910efc9865e SHA-1: 4b205187e1c15a8d6783513796fc5aa41cd2bb54 SHA-256: 289ce8fe1da68ab05bdd2f59199e4a4e94462329d96ae4208ec018a9095824f7
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, likely serving as a lure for users to download password-protected archives. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and detection signatures suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://bibliotekaludwin.pl/img/upload/files/ludelefozupenu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://clinicscrm.com/img/files/fuxonavupix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14lwsg1seumdzsx.com/upload/fckeditor/file/wunuroteteniwexaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyklo-sport-servis.cz/UserFiles/File/36446718529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alutat.com/data/file/20980631272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zakuskymoser.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/posajamawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://focalthai.com/file_media/file_image/file/70109879629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150004.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210905021756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210913_141925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgelc.com/userfiles/file/20210902170731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/87951767865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdio.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/zasifezojomazivewugaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e2b8a3588e1c8eb0bf1925e0c35cf74/kenizuvelazikizamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxbeimei.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109021824599469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakeshoresmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9idvrph6sn4eb029olu5jl9ct5/zinokerupuvifapada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tlw.ro/UserFiles/file/giloder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmuniontravel.com/userfiles/files/pizegidibazimelefel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130cebf520b5---fojimasesosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osiindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41703866220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ski-valloire.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93486065534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mutatisasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tamtrebinhminh.com/public/files/22962966132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vetregistr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bepibepukexedilomarebud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioituigiay.net/uploads/files/sorizenunariner.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caraudioshop.ro/mm/file/20414448812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+psp+isoPDF 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_off0000c5b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5B3 10028 bytes
SHA-256: 3a821ac3666dd7879866cebd84a50d8caf884ef0f9d7f1158361eeee166f23b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC7 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 3a6f1aefebf23bae1164b00c7c89776f99902524194b1fb76460388e8be68656
font_02_sfnt_off00010adf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ADF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1