Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 400089dc0e1979dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-07-29 12:36:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: b22ac9a781ad5e4bfb17ef03d2f7b73a SHA-1: e2f6a0337c0b83c7866fc035ebafb1e067807f60 SHA-256: 400089dc0e1979dcf2b1891992d474104773afd4ec360c2787e335434e34117b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure aspect. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the PDF, likely serving as a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://yuanyoujie.vip/userfiles/file/16288776797.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c24dde83697---36523671660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd02752ec8fbdc45b5a18832cadabaab/votutozutodod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b12589825d6---12797768847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e45cc500cb4ff9597035583fc529f968/14813361837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/32641867824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbb48a8b716936993da530dd2c4513f0/86518199383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sahabatkeluargahomecare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161025de7e7098---ponirugig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uppercanadatwocylinderclub.com/clients/877835/File/5342932755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ovalpolycoats.com/media/49346487391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mf6d2dl10bd8fc1ugc79onu4r6/gonaxasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/9244262921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaatlantida.com/userfiles/file///gesisor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://graham1978.com/clients/79565/File/darivavemenetago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/gelenebezefug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watch62.ru/files/files/53606728093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/77212758082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kngroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c275fa5e996---turoteviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e446cc939fb6ed1daed09d6ce60f6934/xofofirifuxota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=is+techstream+freePDF 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_off0000d690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD690 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eea7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA7 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 9a179218bc4d7dfcf697b0477c4280271698c8a55ea22b70c3b362128b6fc900
font_02_sfnt_off0001057f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1057F 17592 bytes
SHA-256: f0ac31a0264b9c8430fe52f773a5ff686145954eabe151820926f9d13457eb97