Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3269a152b6187272…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-07-19 08:15:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 08805136cca5dbc4ac0c79561447390d SHA-1: ea79712586fd88133615480004751a07afb9c529 SHA-256: 3269a152b618727270ebde2afeca07e08c2d1c64d9014d7e2b186ce57be2e6ed
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, employing a link farm hosted on multiple websites, some of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this, suggesting an attempt to trick the user into downloading a malicious payload. While no scripts were directly extracted, the overall structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://tyextractor.com/d/files/rebagudofamifejewafi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093a54bd155d---24347718230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944ef2ae95f---xasewusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubivina.com/Images_upload/files/39143470673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pau4p7bs07qq69ghmg9df11k78/39066517172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-design.cz/files/file/lodaxajali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medok18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39b4e85cbdd68da35964d9467d6915d3/54470524616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.litesourcenc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98004244518858754e9ddd88e121960d/zinabezewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/965lthimkoc1hel9qecefbeqkp/88976794990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6e383b5974---nimojolumomudufuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://horlickhigh61.com/clients/a/ab/ab3fb267cc30d45b98f460a20cee0b8d/File/27583786951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c368080892---16967815409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoondb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bc7aee0ec4---80420099647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweefvlieg.net/userfiles/file/jopejirukilile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haohanlegend.com/Uploadfiles/files/puxuziberebabuwedomudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/75bc5148c829e60500a678edfe3c930f/85459754817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asslar.de/downloads/tadum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/nonabunabiful.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160861206a2b18---75776742234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/tegeposaxutozudanuxofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607487f3d4079---jefezifadubusafazasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retake.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22745055985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ladyvenus.it/userfiles/files/71838966038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deepankarbasu.com/FCKeditor/file/vagogilopijubimok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=totally+accurate+battle+simulator+apk+pcPDF 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_off0000e705.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE705 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF1C 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 3731c8b9538b9320abbb4e474d318c0d323d24c0cbcc601a4ee572eddbea8c13
font_02_sfnt_off00011802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11802 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 3513fcc010133ffad3cff5668d43dcdcb6997c457475eec002da3b297baadae1