Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5df11a4e8bd1c781…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:52:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b4584872fe26b407eccae68d38023b0b SHA-1: 61cd4eb61264a9060bff2bf7a8a2f33ac0e0550f SHA-256: 5df11a4e8bd1c78197bd2322c254b7bc0fc0271fda8daf2d30dc3a56abe0cb84
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that utilizes SEO poisoning techniques, with multiple links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

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://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1dd09fe0a8c8634e1acbe0ae682da90/wakepidutopozexekumow.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://afslab.asia/upload/files/80801516199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenna-ski.pl/userfiles/file/56097384763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072baf35a68e---lojuduwadozojoweniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bitite.lv/media/txt/122/file/vawefivobuperarer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161098bb029ed4---xiturowugelaparewodudazol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iscfbao559d4bcfir3nutq1tri/xuzisanekuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kientrucsangtrong.com/plus/files/11030485869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safrano.pl/userfiles/file/46234105690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st03.it/userfiles/files/24911075104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/26908289771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axiomestates.com/userfiles/file/zovevibunubuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitesal.com/data/images/file/8314_20210602205656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8f0d981462---38248329117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holyfamilyhospitals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77621512571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56ec180f91---42926890759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7772d81c9aa45c32297c2d2b565a98d/31786898808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupo-bahia-real-estate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wipopunomovutibodogov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terracetemayonetim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/78654894513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://photographybynami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c646d1a5c3f---jefowibigisutakeravufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/gomuvideji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/tutox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sevenchurchestour.net/seven/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d95d92ed485---valuloweduzodujaluketopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weberstellen.ch/userfiles/file/suritatoseduvexija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=civil+service+ph+reviewer+pdfPDF 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_off0000ed0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010526.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10526 10416 bytes
SHA-256: d7348e5e469549216181ebc3d5df2e829aa164de9acb4572ce2cf61e606fe818
font_02_sfnt_off00011ceb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CEB 18384 bytes
SHA-256: 0d123d29c38421f0a9839efbbdb336eebd3b646e82d4a3b52f314690e7e45942