Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 652ee49ddee84ef6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-06-09 10:42:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: a595ebee178ca5e362685437ae47a48d SHA-1: 1ccb217a861e2b77d933d036c4cb0737a91f4d26 SHA-256: 652ee49ddee84ef66b369cec59d41180873007a40823025f184aea07a871d827
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a malicious intent to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=maltego+license+key+crack PDF link annotation
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65808c7804c77320ab7745cd4a153bdd/90366984683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arslanemlak.come/file/25987186878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c0db24bc51---jeketoxaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a0733c099---maviwujoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/1766454100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609282ff8df27---lopovoberubikepep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f93c5fda1---37709491629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/92212529666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lorenzofranzone.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cc20c7b4bce1b63f860513244b1e4d3/6263345465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rvbd6klohgo6tcpc75tbn1f687/87751921013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sonarmusic.hu/up_image/file/xalajijoxeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.com/res/wysiwyg/file/44519300845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7c2e898028b4fdd084b62a8dcf03393/13498740200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/mumovavegoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vickers-electronics.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43be08db953f62469e5a52f3a054f0ee/povixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/javagowidabiladimula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webtraffic.ch/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0g2il29r254si4ajrb70j433l2/79335212895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160926c28b1bf4---80358202787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f18d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF18D 5140 bytes
SHA-256: cc0f19abdeb32978a1aae9127a6aa23b002fc1c29d5b166dd066f2b38663267b
font_01_sfnt_off0001032d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032D 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 3e12f63d9c18e99e88ece24f09e8c3ca2b717e71a376a5a3c236c3029e181445