Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4785e25ea21b675b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 21:34:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a56ff955edc6ffa01325b227db9524b9 SHA-1: 32339b5b2dc68ed09937bfd6d3d1d33493ddb90e SHA-256: 4785e25ea21b675b6a234e0ad073a792ff9d92f211333da74f089d649f33c49a
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true malicious destination. The presence of invoice or payment lure language further supports a phishing or scam-related attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://aznamaste.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11270881859.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a1d7924dd2---41141267050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shriadinathbank.com/uploads/2771550325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymsoft.us/aym_image/files/40680914440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b576badb1904e69453b80add3ed332de/79347272871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/215bc293ebd1135f16b52ad523e72c17/29205155966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjglaw.com/uploadfile/file/2021082415033973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://incense888.com/uploads/files/202108160000307617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f7bf901106615714926724d06c05203/38928560116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verduciautodemolizioni.it/userfiles/file/79344312159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capmar.eu/userfiles/file/89182384841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khamtribacninh.com/images/files/98390706645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shadesvalleymounties1969.com/clients/868959/File/28721625294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingore.cn/upload/files/sesodimivexilinogalupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://affordableadobe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2227658540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/3740208892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rethabise.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090b8f393785---dogotumiriramebupajeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.straightmyteeth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/85c9ac4dbfad42fc9e065d6af2416c46/48295470552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watchimport.eu/userfiles/file/kibatukofulogirasib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/sadozaruwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd997fe89ae---tiriju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1b12e9a97a---fexopuxaxolupubisirape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonweringbelgie.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pokoxevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morrisjones.co.uk/EditorImages/file/44021315893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/97789639305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=control+system+book+pdf+by+nagoor+kaniPDF 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_off000104a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104A0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011cb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CB7 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 3e7253ac54f6acf1a43013960bc390eee81bfaa15d254fe2b6548c7508092d1f
font_02_sfnt_off0001369e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1369E 18068 bytes
SHA-256: c09dd42f2ed57d1b3cc68f4ded7844b8d2265dd6ab53a2671bf241e20ce9aedc