Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 417d1328a349b122…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.8 KB Created: 2021-08-12 11:43:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b1d325c2182f5994ee97a57f29f5793c SHA-1: 4dfab2769374a8debc911095748524f2d1bb093d SHA-256: 417d1328a349b122cd86f8049bec9f85f57038d3c09f791aa5f38273f28e9b75
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host or distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2969040b61---92595027964.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://j-kowalewski.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/96978273380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16108aea21629d---kimokubokad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f431232fec7---samuwofutirowikat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hydro-tg.pro/upload/file/zenelefekasagomizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68b9993f89a2531c30eb218493abcb61/30251216910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/vazetokurixirowegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tai-yang.tw/taiyang/upload/file/watesasajumoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/40782007275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tablica-nieruchomosci.pl/uploades/fckeditorfile/24531942488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c77d1f046b3b6e7cc649fddabaccc849/febil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ncucemuvtjoava437o2r2n6pd2/samupipemogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showpalmedical.com/userfiles/64105586291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4f888aa3d3---fudoboniladetaditafisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078e88ace327---wagexovibef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710f0fb2660---34728629498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160717567d780d---somefekuvatexodevebewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brokenspoke.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57ffbc1072160b7466f13009ab072f87/makixununilobumelimatigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.ru/d/files/jebalisiwidomijoranuduvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverthesky.it/file/5667427362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kinocosmik.ru/sadm_files/topokisuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabaizhongxue.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-12/20210512002642677953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=download+game+critical+frontline+strike+offline+shooting+games+mod+apkPDF 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_off0001007f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1007F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011891.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11891 19012 bytes
SHA-256: 38e7d1578bdc8675ad6fee2763cc421ae59650cee2da368ff7af52b1f886e009
font_02_sfnt_off00014a0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A0E 11244 bytes
SHA-256: ad594c4d53eb8236025f603f1847108bbea04e0f37bfd3f103f7f5d7b24d3c21