Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 512ee75c011beaab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:59:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 71dc7e1d91d66666e85eb8ae6693f2b6 SHA-1: 2624b30abfd1b196f29481d0f1f46a36f8c2ef48 SHA-256: 512ee75c011beaabf6482da0cfbfa3589064eaeb56613dfda6bc38ffcd6238f3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable or compromised hosting, forming a link farm. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic suggests a lure to trick users into clicking these links. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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 http://eviljoy.com/UserFiles/File/rodixarofudagepekasize.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/42586973216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3gr-group.com/ci/userfiles/files/fifiwiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7170903934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettarecasa.com/userfiles/files/duwozovafoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1894ad84b40d222b90dfb95a4c8ac2b/pukovefigetakaminoxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinton.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/59352971971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxag.com/upload/browse/file/45310347993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seosanhrd.com/userfiles/file/puzobogalidaxerivepeferi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sopetenizosekerolidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisnoblelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/63552914543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161337195148d1---7754252470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwfinlay.com/uploads/files/44354852333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magdrywall.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/26707828480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skiflogistics.ru/userfiles/file/69816819825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://underworldgear.com/admin/images/fckImg/file/94842330653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ryokanclub.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_90F07BD30604C957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.acefence.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139005930f5f---49767574863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://client-sms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44361737537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funcarele.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ninarufok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liily.jp/upload/file/20210905033031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161407ea0aa453---febaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livredart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tasobunepesaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/df43e303cc9597924316190268d25fc6/19095348497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=x+mod+games+apk+downloadPDF 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_off00011863.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11863 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001307a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1307A 10628 bytes
SHA-256: ac2b547a82a7b1737efc2055f07dbd4a9072a955eeb2ef6c752165f7310a259e
font_02_sfnt_off0001489b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1489B 18532 bytes
SHA-256: 2b6af1759fdebd1696b27a512954598a29c60859d5e5eef137a40e8d3898813d