Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 297481eb45f29224…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:57:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 3ac8b082c0820e85043d949a5527bb47 SHA-1: 83c53827787b834813cfca69396de713b4f4801d SHA-256: 297481eb45f29224e77caa29410eab107e71a07a3c143cd00545eef68b913dda
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting it is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this, indicating a lure to download malicious content. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://gruppocaminiti.it/userfiles/files/39227567977.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ca1f27c1c538cc4f5a4e6d5acbc5c9f/juwuguvime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elonsummerstorage.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160782dd4b1301---34211360691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8e718f4777d090ed263a9f280e9c7d68/tadazenezinunifuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vijyaiprismcrm.com/userfiles/files/60978035246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentish.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jumibularewazuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc0705f9d6---legofavixinidolewufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c71d9770d55---zafowajipaminusuteguwari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adlinefor.com/home/webagen/public_html/korn/data/file/35332832774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctyrkolky-gamax.cz/data/dokumenty/kiritinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe4ce64915a---70044268537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d81cb1f61d---70355237521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arket.io/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dhcgghi13fj2kdd1rlc18s0gke/vefibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/zezivorodalimexojexapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lednotice.com/userData/board/file/29763900598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laser123.com/geektic/files/32563933866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160705132e03bf---xapakabuname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feast.to/upd_file/96267681666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cc518d455fe---66673263304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celyroknaterase.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/97433963973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brickchamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pawototanizera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellar-toys.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8286096963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs75aa.org/clients/0/08/08eb77d093c5251d787cf05842b4a73c/File/jokizizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pi6i9vnmcna8m1oncjo7cggmst/mepip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=libro+secuestrada+anna+zaires+pdf+gratisPDF 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_off00010e6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E6F 20580 bytes
SHA-256: 55a2222b925af37ffb1b2dc0b5acb3ba686ae9bb75ab8b7b558e425004639017
font_01_sfnt_off00014502.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14502 11004 bytes
SHA-256: bcf486781c6ce7e53ded93c8ae70e87f2843acb34899ef61d545e2f3d541001f
font_02_sfnt_off00015e57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15E57 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1