Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 309a8c066e33f89f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 06:12:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 6548112ed159bfd0866f6c9bf2cac007 SHA-1: 770b05a360ba0ef1c4040a66fa7c9903e36379e3 SHA-256: 309a8c066e33f89f8fe350edf763593928412ed70c6a6dbe2b008775060ff9f6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://fijiembajak.com/uploads/ck_uploads/files/79845688329.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://sheenabusesandcoaches.com/userfiles/file/78236081451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoovermaids.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ec966193ef35fe6b6f1c1ce718abbd79/34942823714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cardion.dk/gfx/fckimages/file/960203265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dija.lv/public/userfiles/file/67182098872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.my/images/users/00000000/files/44392044494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiamberardino.it/userfiles/files/54164046239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronospan-mofa-hungary.hu/editor_up/60831507532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argra.rs/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137c5c1b0424---gamawuwogonidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z500.si/files/48307561168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xfswchem.com/upload/files/gizopawadiniliwefusalud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foto-klub.dk/userfiles/file/34373997535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c495c0254---44178748748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamtamphat.com/upload/files/87780096530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7691f75ea7596f0ee4b69febe1fd22d3/22574662120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freewest.at/gubenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodebiaggi.eu/userfiles/files/69097483119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/pisolasomisovodefevugidud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dallaslandscapedesign.com/media/files/54060734970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impeka.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/10392643194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=android+wifi+snifferPDF 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_off0000d945.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD945 10108 bytes
SHA-256: 037b006755ebb819ae1906bdd48f17182ba3b11c37936f78b6a2385776826d07
font_01_sfnt_off0000effe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFFE 17356 bytes
SHA-256: d28cb8da799432ec6b6e31096be52718622e0614ddbdc5a7e2ecc6278c59d824
font_02_sfnt_off00011ca3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1