Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 381b61c55a7cc9a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 16:09:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 8f1505b99cf3e72d910c31f52a9c7278 SHA-1: 95f60301ef022321207ba001ea3f95cbf55155eb SHA-256: 381b61c55a7cc9a6a6ec5038d646af7c4e25a7cef9dcea0e495d2b0448ba5155
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. The document contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the attack pattern of luring users to download malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160733363c2829---vewuwovowupilagigof.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e6691ddd28a---mibivejab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071f5f9c44a7---85902757474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rc3kren2r38sbcqaiovahclbpp/609839341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rabotatver.ru/userfiles/admin/56916946900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wamsconference.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1f26f83b336aa9ad767ade62d8ca04f/vijiduzuleduwevimowojoxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressheating.com/userfiles/file/bajibik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoschiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4f7015cd63---zararemekozezomirajoniga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pphu-joanna.pl/fckpliki/file/69028331854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q00309k42k9vpub8irlttct7bo/vexinerepakokofimelel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ba371559b2---volewazulezipigamajeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/begodamotalemilibigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/16658827730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609264f1eb986---62602028247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/pipilidivubusosutedudaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b37c0fb2a1d6459d637442a3efcd982f/burosifarapotajesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eurogeographyjournal.eu/admin/fckfiles/file/buwukinugirejis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-6///2021626735178859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9e231dcf2f704d0b9455d30701b9ad5/941132539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lubrifianti-auto.ro/files/file/51546988991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldgreiner.de/userfiles/file/mipopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.org/ressource/site-image/files/vosabagesexujabawudofaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/zeratupezimasozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=konami+pes+2020+manualPDF 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_off0000ec63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC63 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 9973faa6d7a34a41caa39362b6557b6386dea547657fea70bfc6c1ae0f1e2212
font_01_sfnt_off0001046a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1046A 18876 bytes
SHA-256: 97ccc29d8831a07f428376ce5565fd5a426a2195257f3a33b899fa651562dc7e
font_02_sfnt_off000134d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1