Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 316c3ba8ee6426ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2021-08-24 06:57:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 292869b5f443e535114b818b32857c0f SHA-1: adadb50921eb12c83cd564e6f90f97d1c7d0e17c SHA-256: 316c3ba8ee6426cee54ddcc2f8bdae1050862980e1d88a870a854ef9103ed907
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 a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The heuristics reveal a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a download button lure further supports this conclusion.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://dogninja.com/userfiles/files/boriralanudoregapevuloj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cerquilho.sp.gov.br/public/admin/globalarq/uploads/files/17192600692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otelnamore.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/390ec93151eca007965fcd004ac9c5d6/xibovizapusizizopaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab4ceb2d1b8e05ae9e4ee9fe7f54c457/nijemibugazifakopeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://efeotokiralama.com/Upload/file/kopupajovixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/lixipavopotetetabovafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.egavilanes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74962540516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8664eb70d---42014723723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2003fb8d513db1d427505825baef3627/48977382387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namngonviet.vn/user-/files/tapifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciskmv.com/css/file/11918230962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad00bad1de2---dukatiboxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmtours.co/aym_image/files/tuneriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071c643ebefc---68441543203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalonetours.com/userfiles/files/pidexuruxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standartbio.com/fckfiles/file/58617961486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarmaramures.ro/userfiles/file/pokevigiviramokive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lexconsulting.ro/webroot/files/media/39804185121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drvision.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a6ff70416c---wiganibifinekifudok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd0c3bc296b177eb3825b53351889c6f/38818687560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74385eb5b7bcb0146b156bcc497fb59b/89731741741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://numen-wow.com/userfiles/cloud//files/banerowegemamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediliziaunoaventi.com/userfiles/files/razawefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=chalk+and+duster+full+movie+download+mp4PDF 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_off0000ef02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF02 17100 bytes
SHA-256: ae1d2ff0f7d00366d869d813ea98fe216d3d0d6f2f48dc64c1466ce205398eeb
font_01_sfnt_off00011bb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000133cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133CF 11216 bytes
SHA-256: abb48a3ef7d4b25d41851957746fe1691675290791643969faaa8fa0b728932c