Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 377c5d2149955fcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 11:38:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 6a321fb001df194ac581c0e73704fb81 SHA-1: c9d942201109fe652ca6447155bdd4ec285bc4a4 SHA-256: 377c5d2149955fcf129a9170c9dd1d27acf870315cc096e44858b6a48f081130
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ngnjl.com/userfiles/files/65908627694.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wchs65.org/clients/b/bb/bb65574a37642f7fe3135935df861e67/File/81212799662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddaae6d67d3266f7367d6472800aaaae/mumunabubibijeketiwimej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d22u6tlqe5umtjdili76d7jdm0/somudazilasopatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetburden.com/upload/users/files/54504083975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pawsandtiaras.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68472393516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urs-certification.com/gais/image/file/91097069613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/disizapebesikejiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pierrevillers.fr/mairie_files/file/leforal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161300a5b46e8f---51150231916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphacleanwashing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/189ce81210d051e02e299d32b6ea638d/70022103033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amthanhanhsangchinhhang.vn/upload/files/13193932361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bociany.sk/media/file/25752576426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6da58e264b715c9490668fe0dffe4274/xokavinatuzajiboxuseba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bpp9k07gs700m2c3cf4f0ks4nq/46936863402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotang.net/userfiles/file/73583328550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodez.com/pliki/file/xaruxefise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://facades-metal.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vunavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b771d11095---29778845534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f628478978655221d076f49d2155120/94797345926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ftejvkg7mu05jf30oru4grn3bl/92301406784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoiotelecom.com/imagens/img_fckeditor/file/48398298250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/bigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carlaschroyen.com/content_docs/wuramotikiwawevixidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/68444223264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=printable+cooking+conversion+chart+pdfPDF 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_off0000e1cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1CC 18792 bytes
SHA-256: 40be415dbf87d20582ff60a33149d946bf0e10e983e9f4d8524c442d0eb5abfb
font_01_sfnt_off0001127d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1127D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012a94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A94 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 9797c21b3778c46707449ce27034d4ae5f495faee79555d0a8c9e4fce6bd046b