Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5bf4dce0af9c4425…

MALICIOUS

PDF

145.1 KB Created: 2021-07-08 20:08:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: a549a891964a3b7a5681f1f81f846a13 SHA-1: 3bdeeb6525d8569147b49c64220bf503e8acc953 SHA-256: 5bf4dce0af9c442553515ceee8134217bc8365d5d7d1060d371078588de2a10c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=river+ecosystem+project+pdf+in+bengali PDF link annotation
    • http://bighost.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/1385118783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089e68fbf33b---fokofetim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ildungrice.com/fileupload/fckeditor/file/18871352727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uppld.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607276801000c---96433960386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/zigumepinuzogefunejonanif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galgalesh.com/userfiles/file/83598050256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ac12a7800a---11617754848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infrastone.com/userfiles/files/lufapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c54080ec0---sinerotowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjq676g6spl23o199i82b3395p/gununaralaxepefipajepuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/51975465732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9s4ksdo0uce6a8vannu66a7a9m/vinukaleru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607025760dd31---53887060234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-cluny.cz/UserFiles/file/jajikefalexowujexetuguduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richardsonfamilyreunion.net/clients/7/79/79e100fddb184f5a3447a495e7c481fb/File/demupitilufefonotanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721ed8536f5---16450449267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movesforfree.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u3cn9aa8kin14o0rfmpclkfpp4/bokinitol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hutergroup.de/userfiles/file/badinafifuwebik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210629_0F29BA69CEE43BC3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comobrew.com/newsite/images/user_uploads/file/lusoludoreda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210620_FAD90E50D5438A37.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecf061f4219ddc2c4c74ba9254707673/24244207650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4470e20f7a02eeda25ccd3aa7c23deb/degezepirizon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/53928967424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/40829005827.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_off0001d139.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1D139 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001e950.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E950 11460 bytes
SHA-256: 6ee6df296722e84255fa09c32277b54dea465fb6aa63e3a554057d8696055d4e
font_02_sfnt_off000203fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x203FA 20016 bytes
SHA-256: d3c9478af38a2beb303ab56d5c5d2c5ec7447d4e910317894149f0d6b78cc8f3