Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dd43b46acdb92f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-08-06 18:24:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ec31d5990dd703644022fc880c9d4ac7 SHA-1: 939f23e80e11eaae2f31b0ea1e230dcd5274cf26 SHA-256: 2dd43b46acdb92f3ffb44d08e5ff5e44e5a045b0d31b7c872b4957423c6303a6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, which are likely part of a link farm designed to trick users into downloading malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=foxit+reader+full+crack+2019 PDF link annotation
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbcc883281154a46441db35d561c273c/11061863069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/93758317950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lu67.com/clients/50962/File/81961629981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designerhouse.ru/upload/files/1985762067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhatuogz.com/uploadfile/file/75798756519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adance0112.com/upfile/editor/file/mubalomapanumobotaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ccdcd96e2e---76691091409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavimenti.pl/web/uploads/files/10204605163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fsgzb.com/upfolder/e/files/20210701155418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ancoraeducacion.com/images/folova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://llibreriaha.com/img/events/file/fuzemuvubasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkorphotographyguide.com/userfiles/file/gitunogufebotuwofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aamuhsv-madisonalumni.org/files/files/83578082791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/92441559720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.biz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ks13o078ad9gtaol22uv39ood1/95158308296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bantinnhadat.com/users/files/5473477742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/upae404993fhec3v9f763il2qk/22130176159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inverpalmas.site/aym_image/files/suxevadejezapiterenom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/gumekozibuketile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210510113846_1269770469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repare-ton-smartphone.com/userfiles/file/43253191324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebrates.ca/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/lobufizikuvitafukixabiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160904de28e7d8---62101088931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbemnkjd7bfu.xn--p1ai/design/img/upload/file/gonifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e27b8b154ae9633d23bb9c94f4d57855/20087978260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000eff4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010806.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10806 17564 bytes
SHA-256: 850c1009b210e331851bf94eea3d5af48a57bd5c25881005855a2b64a08377d3
font_02_sfnt_off00013611.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13611 10932 bytes
SHA-256: a45ac41e77dd767cccc7e097425cabdd7d7e298996dffc1475b98b6082913cb5