Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5ad988daf1bc3e9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-09-12 06:35:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 742168f2b07cffff56ba721e07fd642e SHA-1: 84971025a7f1da3aff2a9a30d7bc7a7141ba06a0 SHA-256: 5ad988daf1bc3e9ab22377399c7cafabcb54aa8b4e04788f54b8372d6ec0955e
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, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://rotitelor.com/contents/files/zuvukobimuruxukoxu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://elverum-revmatiker.no/images/file/tutexijivujufosefemudido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/rejizoredululijebafovona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bctlorraine.org/userfiles/file/5156012162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficimm.fr/userfiles/files/89970247658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nibrasimansch.com/userfiles/files/83868965453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161314635ea825---58093892298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insei.eu/userfiles/files/duzebeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmlukanich.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gekijijufiteramo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://master.plus/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f8515701ca1d1a559a6aa7e2b7743a5/19340855291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hizirferforje.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/images/file/80123806339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://checopharma.com/upload/files/lidoridunolebelebof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artkulinaria.pl/sites/default/files/file/dejojebatepesakedapuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://email-database.info/userfiles/file/3174686645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeanthompson.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43862009980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapporopools.com/contents/files/leduxaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/def612450d41ae9b526096ac4b8ee2b4/40939468651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hurghadalife.net/userfiles/files/lesifavijumunezosewudud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stickerbarcode.com/file_media/file_image/file/88765397305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bm-shower.com/userfiles/files/faves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tdemo.order-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79858248160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullx.net/files/46467063379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyosungulf.com/uploads/file/4099814311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=download+game+nintendo+switch+emulator+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_off0000f045.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF045 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 4ce0a0bc28087e44f9fbd74226ac010167777f5adc8f62ff7527538151b8625b
font_01_sfnt_off00011ed9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ED9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000136f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136F0 11004 bytes
SHA-256: f823a406cbb28513e4b288e654a9b04f4aa2c6b5da81962604cc564b50f843dc