Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 441c083edd53aacc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 19:30:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 0c89037c78c35685785ca071355bfb3a SHA-1: 155556afd5bf63f946ee757ccf1a36f9be19f38d SHA-256: 441c083edd53aacc2d76326e4a7e23f8878ce65e4f8cda4e3e6e438cc1d2278a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm pointing to various domains, some of which are compromised WordPress sites, attempting to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'Download Button' heuristic further support a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/sozarelimobunava.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b6af8474c9---11012670088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appfacile.it/file/32391090487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ai77rq93790q56kvkknk5g3svf/kivemetolerivalikememesoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ip-golubev.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tosemokaxipetagepodosod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjm5lht3v0p1bnsclaf6obe0q3/46884475468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2643ecac6b8b2a07718d558898c4401f/38982847794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-weekend.com/clients/9/94/945a7f92a07ecc721aac768ad340748a/File/nefozikod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4vi1ojidsdopr75md3to6lus82/12755522729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/odkdnmrhci8ftsrfiopgtve2rh/rizegafuvavedumop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24cb180feb219115ad500f7b1cf3f717/jirenawojakebujev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d3b4031bdff337eedf884e4274e1726/guvedelomenageladarovebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t6gflhsg0kn1hm65hdpjsgvfs6/94478704314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kue08fmsa3rjh1l0abfn2ck386/bosukanamabajivil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab17506ef4a---bekosuwabogurafek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085d25a92edf---93466424847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7085336f5d781683d16849e215adc3c3/puruto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vorne-sitzen.eu/pcms/content/file/lajemuwofifijewatanoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buffagiuseppeinfissi.com/userfiles/files/58835176497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/29271218652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mevlanaasm.com/resimler/files/18682715209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cambresisemploi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94590594500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=irrational+numbers+pptPDF 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_off0000de15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE15 10604 bytes
SHA-256: 85e531bc41a3b166aaeef3ad751858809c47464e8c5d80e820e3b9293879091a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f60e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF60E 16920 bytes
SHA-256: dfe3c078b20d4914c41c581f7b96dacf708d6f62f25907ae23daee00ed39f076
font_02_sfnt_off00012253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12253 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1