Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 393d454355cf350a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB Created: 2021-07-07 04:26:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8055b68ac84c665cc7d02f763ea74bbb SHA-1: fd459ad2479ce9173350fac7200d1617c371a235 SHA-256: 393d454355cf350ab54bb57b9c350e3071ff73f456ec9f6256a6677c1c85818a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9924

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=twice+with+names PDF link annotation
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dl3n1fokb4mfi225f762e7e1um/mogigixurap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0bb68ec45b8fb1ba6a789853399c999/xulebavapulokakawaxalep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-6-14/20210614092622997896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://614move.com/clients/4890/File/woposagijedorexoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alemotta.com/resources/original/file/15645709674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bi3cvsa26rvt6iu7j679boiv2/71911505753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/waraziludotunurij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demkapi.com/resimler/files/jagazeziwamuvelezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/40649774231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/264488a445c011c5d7897b1a6bdcfdc7/xerakovewewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b5e767d963bb16757e1db18e735048f/21329726832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/58098617594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoinkworld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3204829c7bd3d1ae83e0e39bd1c74778/71799225769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americansummercamps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca39ae322f---kokuwubokegowosoxejapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rittenhousereunion.com/clients/a/ad/ad7d26974070b67854a29702aed78614/File/29699457667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.asejnrtigers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c42a67659---zetepekav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff0316a1a0701a3cdfd8e0548ed29d2d/bikokutudozamifexuzoruli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0881def9b6b751623d3f65ddba9cdc0d/tilifaropenogiwurujuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cee3fe8cce---vulonulafatosixux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drmarlenebothma.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9308c122c1---bepegofutiditifakakizefez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beveragesgs.com/userfiles/file/tofatefufinezuwumuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://martom24.pl/martom/userfiles/file/rikinoradudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kayakbranson.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0abc81de87---fuzesowedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9941db804bc26dfc4d1b6046469a7f98/87670139413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/96343433039.pdfIn 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE43 2144 bytes
SHA-256: cc3de464e2fed7caaa5acc380b7fbc4330115fa85c596b9cc995a80d30e76a55
font_01_sfnt_off000107dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107DD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FEF 17604 bytes
SHA-256: 117ea287d223a0cdaf87999d086462ead5a83b65b720c9ab73ff3c582f2e60c6
font_03_sfnt_off00014e59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E59 10276 bytes
SHA-256: e0608a632df508dd5ff2f1d99beefe8e50211540ba94da3adc7b47233f3b93d4