Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dc9c4595ae5c778…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.1 KB Created: 2021-09-11 02:34:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2d799dd876f38c82893de87df386f516 SHA-1: a9c3fa7f87bc876ad09fa4469ed68e3ccd9cbeec SHA-256: 2dc9c4595ae5c7788c2faf5d0753e14573febebec0d5dfadd03dfdaa13f39c9b
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. The document contains numerous links to compromised websites and a visual download button, indicating a social engineering attempt to trick the user into downloading a malicious file. The presence of multiple links to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting further supports a malicious intent.

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.accl-calibration.com/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xenofugotusajegepikuxibi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zamaro.cz/images/fcke_files/file/16144989543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/92141635504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fioredda.com/userfiles/files/fufezex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132214791a35---zarisupiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/mimukezilonomogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccsup.co.th/uploads/ckfinder/files/tudopegux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lang-mayer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b7f5bf4ed---90899678380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90cb447caa8a70f5434e4f386e93c5bc/tevekoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patronusalapitvany.hu/public_html/upload/37304442239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icf-plant.com/files/file/6640058734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://protrialse.eu/files/files/pukabisaretol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-beauty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59865666449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hypotekaprezamestnancov.sk/res/file/65037352396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhambra.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/16123570606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnhaihui.com/userfiles/file/20210907021926_1778459300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be0e2cb9f9---43844619396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commandhousecreations.com/uploads/files/fovunuxirire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipsaix.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mopevosoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332564105ef---88974930811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/77229267502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmradiatoriai.lt/images/files/82804772629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/sorikekuridiporu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brillimet.com/uploads/files/202109071027316751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pilot-nav.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24415748488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=install+bamini+font+in+androidPDF 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_off00013787.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13787 20992 bytes
SHA-256: e960b8f1ed6c74a60312655399f5019f3023bb7a3b9e59e9b3df5312516415a6
font_01_sfnt_off00016e9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16E9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000186b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186B2 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 0ff92e15311d827357ec7371dbc71edb5f87977d12d8601d7bf46c96f97bb974