Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 379e8156d672635b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-06-05 23:01:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: cef40c155698df33814d042871a71387 SHA-1: 1b9f86cbb69bd536ae69091e18b84c074139f259 SHA-256: 379e8156d672635b5f8ba9cf0d9c2aa2340d44a14e16e46e9ef8f65cfe4ad3cf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains multiple links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The primary lure appears to be a fake movie download, as indicated by the URL containing 'frozen+1+full+movie+free+download+in+tamil'. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a phishing or malware payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=frozen+1+full+movie+free+download+in+tamil PDF link annotation
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f3422d78adf7aaf64c95dcc49484f0c/8079647741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h5degvngqmmadm9n6kjr7fh7rs/velokimafalifomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ec0a06d70b25774b144527020b7225f/25391898711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a387934a38c---wikanuzigubajawekigekuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/nogonaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ptogel2.com/contents//files/dipisovog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ade4de9d46c7a10d70258acebbf7a83b/45157477834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinarinsaat.net/userfiles/upload/file/62408118958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075e06ec2a8c---xirerobelatidasokeri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c319a8d390---fabagabalirumex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gresathouse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa6873867d423afb1ed8133d6ef38f20/tukivafevadebog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaexpansionjoint.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbcb22a1713---82168539224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/25164698840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cspdental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ffe6292948b8f3e31cc9066982237f6/xikafatafoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7vphqpg36bs0pjl906obmats86/80832592019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fotografoeventimilano.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083baaba975c---lunekakobegow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f66c340ba5---fedepopesajunisid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C2 5084 bytes
SHA-256: 26ade5590efc58a832f3ba60a14de0c6f92cddc365137148445e77292f0285d1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE919 10188 bytes
SHA-256: c09966ac0c9afd36bb88550efba03253f5f15db8e765ced8be20dfa32f2b16be