Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 403e24720ad8d73b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 20:09:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 8ab34ace1a42b62b51271f5b8d7df04a SHA-1: 50dc1931be70e537bd99528391bfd73dfbe505ae SHA-256: 403e24720ad8d73b7f79f58665568fa2fc4d0aea7e07134621dea4f1c6afe9ef
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure of downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://naseeha.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b9560d952a757ab70bc0bf4118f9ec3d/40235313242.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dostavkaturov.ru/files/file/regojataduvofejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imhyuk.com/imhyukeditor/userfile/file/78707380075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abab77d0872---36259707674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607848923cbb5---sumalapefajalowed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://radmangroup-ye.com/rgfiles/file/77639347331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b232cbcee5f225e9711fb34c2366e8c6/98046172392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lufty.cz/UserFiles/files/37843911616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pllk5j5gh0vklcuk1hr5pri22o/46086801844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/34607499411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///202172204278069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cheeselicious.net/UserFiles/file/zobevanopunam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.citysecurity.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4kbb4o6jdukmom5l93lf5givme/23745126639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkbprivateiti.com/userfiles/file/60240980562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovojob.com/userfiles/files/porupuradokadamoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.com/userfiles/files/dixupamiwuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba66eab4f99---43415436466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5ea14a4d92555502936b1a6a01ca430/48684519656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazomotor.com/allinone/file/terofesawadoralagojap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14e9a643fc---59023970628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609687f0e5a56---bisavejivoxasigefilofed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://annjulieskarpmo.com/userfiles/file/lupasono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=nimcet+previous+year+question+paper+download+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_off0000d711.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD711 11272 bytes
SHA-256: 5a58887726cb46824bd697d14048cd10373f5b36888693c99d403af012b68015
font_01_sfnt_off0000f15d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15D 17604 bytes
SHA-256: 65b28ad96ed131a2358ba482df4dde141a132d9ece60514beeafedf08b9234c1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ee2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1