Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 649cc139bc31b932…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-09-16 07:52:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5eb4cd95bd3856e3ea711e2ac5cb260c SHA-1: 5bb9c3e4677f96941d0ab82451b1cba60b3e7080 SHA-256: 649cc139bc31b93225f995245e5f724e58d5e8b7cd195854c0d98e5b3a522811
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads, and a heuristic indicates a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cinema+hd+app PDF link annotation
    • http://sumisaedu.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_78DE5B43D5AC91F4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deshpanday.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guxoserokesisemirari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffanouib9spm38ee66hf9m0p9m/zokofezuvoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/25660089220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stnicholasway.com/userfiles/file/86429795203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imotrading.com/images/userfiles/57941140072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coyada.com/up_images/up_images/binugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131091c5f21c---19722856354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettobotteonpierpaolostudioabacus.it/userfiles/files/zuxukaxegasadimazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatimaartwork.com/userfiles/file/91272311612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arabstina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96446429765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appartementslisa.it/an3_Uploads/file/43743158253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4619f7649d1db33e4fb4c263729c0153/7955922239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hensuyenpqa.traigiongthuha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sixopebepolomosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonorganica.ru/upload/files/66983689793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baobiachau.com/luutru/files/xinemim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farmaciavictoriayjmleon.com/userfiles/files/wujozafosedineliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueview.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/17952207042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b3677e4392ee3989fc34514aee9b8b9/62622479615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k12kos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74867245762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sentai.cc/data/file/20210904_041530_251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kodemari.info/data/files/81058472392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korankertas.com/contents/files/68523683178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--pssa17sw71b.tw/upimages/files/tuvesubaxib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fa1e65afec---dosobijixefowusitol.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_off0001005f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1005F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011876.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11876 10156 bytes
SHA-256: af1598abb2bdfb29d491f9bc372ea71f2d1f02514ee289fd4f247c6d03ee1b63
font_02_sfnt_off00012ee7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EE7 16768 bytes
SHA-256: c81943e59cf8464d3ad9774982bbc9270d923a1007d28ee5a2b8d77d89df9f74