Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 679b064556788bd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-07-21 14:59:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 1d1b910820cdb13e12ec456da02eafbc SHA-1: 5e280530af6330ec0ffc3bd622796e0d29908f6a SHA-256: 679b064556788bd5d66d853d4f669310c0bbdc1ff94f3aec6a1f22a4f5377d10
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/ferexufovol.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4a02d1352d---29635021390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/23329051707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/811de80f40dcaae44f9e1ee5fd3d9e89/55188222327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4fv62fg0ahbplveurjatk7a6f7/dajejufodede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09b3031cf5---lepameb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thealloywheelcentre.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/118dda55ea75d05bffef115590254094/69621672618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.fr/userfiles/file/vanunuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/92698657259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/zufejixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://al-bandak.com/userfiles/file/galonozerakirimunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/peroraxekoludejabubax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tangelo.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a09a370a6d---20608223859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://philippinesroadshow.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d020df6876b4962bcb7e02d5d739a0c2/xuzixekovuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/kudenitiretonokevomikili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://covinahigh1980.com/clients/1/14/147ee80f0cf2e08ca1b5067d21485a43/File/75394803465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c2000dd656---mugula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.florentmaussion.net/userfiles/File/robisofugezanorodiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/nemexejodunolesojafide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f939327c497ba92d463a14a98bda9ea2/34667288042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/39887453000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/45555459211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4368fba897---14628839570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5fb35d3158---bonerikezil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ielts+academic+reading+test+papersPDF 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_off0000eb62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB62 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010374.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10374 16944 bytes
SHA-256: 103802ede1fe07e266ab53ef538041dd32173e96b448d861c528fa0f055c7240
font_02_sfnt_off00012fca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FCA 10688 bytes
SHA-256: f432af4b269b68d0743542518c53a50dc31285a2b09899e332a5cec50175a54a