Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5af3932fbcbc3569…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 00:29:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0a973455c7d6c8005ce970e6391ff817 SHA-1: 058c6d8908a5320903173555decb4a43e58ba0d6 SHA-256: 5af3932fbcbc3569db5365f48f2bfaa0ab58f6f118033e32548c896b3f0e5b54
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this malicious intent. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=print+screen+samsung+tablet PDF link annotation
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161462f7456cae---famanugik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents/files/49967915876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142abe27576e---49732079996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-2000.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jodadiginadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ppk-kp3k.kkp.go.id/ver2/extra/ckfinder/core/connector/php/media/ckfinder/files/16133463729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140fe55a214e---77628192121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssanadia.in/userfiles/file/kazagimuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/zajinipawebev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfahk.com/upload/files/65308365761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://philly.drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/9961989864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portableandcool.com/files/files/rerofategitegeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g4rrd19t77mcvmcoteou0rp9cg/tidalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comlark.ru/userfiles/files/99268039142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcntanduc.vn/img_duhoc/files/rotejuvudowigup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinaconexmec.vn/uploads/news_file/34607495479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onutglen.com/caningest/images/file/20948322959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123flower.doweb.kr/upload/files/xisujixiledu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22vek-omsk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/46981045364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/lupikibokel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://owv-sad.de/userfiles/files/zafut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongrentangthai.com/UserFiles/file/kexadaxodunigowoxinuxakuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmytour.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210920_E816104545AA37A4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mashura.co/userfiles/files/nobudisejulobosomegikun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/kekakeka1631074653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e952.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE952 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 146340e4b35c36fe1ebcc80e696b09b6b74b348710f13f7c1a37d612207443f4
font_01_sfnt_off000101d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000119ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119EA 17236 bytes
SHA-256: d3bbfd71410d8f6fbdf9222e6351e161daa5ff613284d5a94a03253115d6cb34