Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 641303720e9f14df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-20 16:20:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 87481f4f511f4345ea04787ee6d52003 SHA-1: 1d782c2095e996b5d3ee0d3347a12fa43911bfa7 SHA-256: 641303720e9f14dfff8bdb93c47990b44dc71adfb303fa5e56e68ad5caac1210
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. The presence of numerous external links, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms and disposable hosting, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick users into initiating a download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/77608072373.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ahirealty.in/admin/userfiles/files/fenolujukizit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helderlive.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sozanufifuzobib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngor2-3.com/file_media/file_image/file/kevirijagaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noospc.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/88768459359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/2252374027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermiradiatoriai.lt/images/files/1401003522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://testplanet.nl/uploads/files/93509474909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.viksexteriors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161403a0637077---37234028098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacaune.hu/userfiles/file/14872012603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esrafisek.com/images_upload/files/55918339565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://griesvoegwerken.nl/UserFiles/file/tulugoroja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66954032567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scsytech.com/upload/files/lexoladuwiroxivodugikum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f18cdc4c9b---vamitagaxexunibijafoxuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaide.org/userfiles/file/rodabakaxudopabipesadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gevowezumidumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koppeika.ru/userfiles/file/16861981485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b62925282b---95456295217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.rs/slicice/file/29346831330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://debcopharma.com/userfiles/file/4224680737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snailgame.ru/upload/files/20210914171445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/39516245731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biogenetec.tw/image/files/20210910_072221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=world+conqueror+4+modPDF 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_off0000e472.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE472 18100 bytes
SHA-256: 3e87447d98ae7bd10c00bd08f633f6edaa7e81318491f797ea79a925b6f1c357
font_01_sfnt_off0001140c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1140C 10328 bytes
SHA-256: 1b78b744fa668a2e4893a1a1ecb922bc2f4ad9776528b78fa6715e8a4d15f825
font_02_sfnt_off00012b20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B20 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1