Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 478983cd6609473f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-09 20:03:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 97acc10b7598c3066193e0f76858f62a SHA-1: 5c5935233e62c2f4683a1464cdaa3c51497b5b72 SHA-256: 478983cd6609473f5a5581f1d7a42e515ee5398a2a0a9a5f6458c2476a69dca2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, some of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads, and a deceptive download button lure. The primary goal seems to be directing users to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://insei.eu/userfiles/files/duzebeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1face1854babf07590077621dd68415/48997184786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekkercoon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17547503298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccargiurgiu.ro/userfiles/file/40378891827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a1climbing.com/userfiles/files/53749944095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ros-audit.com/i/up/file/vodiruzigibigakutasusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135bee7b4c92---74030360325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frchem.cn/upload/files/97573711487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.de/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/543752535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synhbio.com/upload/files/88525805961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138b7f282707---ruludi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/fugilalebod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hermosabeachbungalows.com/userfiles/files/8559254905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioingegneriavaragnolo.com/userfiles/files/xatevemosuduvudeterulezer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edmcenter.xyz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81171052553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmosimpex.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zejifiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prakashirrigation.com/uploads/fck/files/97376930257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabic.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dimemavesusabaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=root+sd+card+androidPDF 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_off0000dae7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FE 10232 bytes
SHA-256: fb53bf43728284ae98243f10fa8699505fc3057fdee8287ca4ab73e6ea2eaff6
font_02_sfnt_off00010a16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A16 17880 bytes
SHA-256: d65b02b3865bf3246d7e1e67a9789f44dce3a1d47daa567772977bf8c986a8c3