Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e4d8a64e117b3de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 03:58:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b4224ae59849676876ec8a3940adc0e4 SHA-1: 41f32b731d7380fef07977b8ecbe8019c98bf3e7 SHA-256: 6e4d8a64e117b3de3bdc1623194335b7b403f04aa57518c2d7cd990227af9a4b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the PDF being a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure reinforces this phishing-like behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/38659254609.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfe620beb97---71825560478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c005bbe84fa---66634072159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barahi.com/assets/userfiles/files/risaraxanuwuvibabefibepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mondzorgvesa-voorschoten.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4bc4ecf27e---74853761139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoforace.eu/userfiles/files/jodak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonaparte-kerkrade.nl/fckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/file/61653400395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/744857d984d574d60d03b55d8df255c8/gowevakedudejit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lulanjina.net/upload/files/loximubuxosoturupeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profitoolinfo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zasitorezadabonepexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://net-mex.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuperinidukigove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhferry.com/data/fckeditor/file///31620094060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://textosolutionslinguistiques.ca/upload/editor/file/pivuxumale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/rodupamexesuxinaxuzawesuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a93b03b27f9---53115049737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argol-editions.fr/userfiles/file/rojebivopisag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.morrisjones.co.uk/EditorImages/file/25635558453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bud-med.eu/userfiles/file/kupet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/32969174455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumusjitu.com/contents/files/43883256050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roeveragri.ac.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5dd23c7d923762975786281435cfbc8/wuripemamijitol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternoohydro.com/d/files/22112948453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewastexperts.com/userfiles/files/mixaburigisojoxaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=irregular+verbs+practise+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_off0000d24a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD24A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA61 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 37fbdab10c4fb6f7b26c4e0d15f8bbaea32845d38f24562869ea4ce95cd18072
font_02_sfnt_off00010311.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10311 17756 bytes
SHA-256: 75ffa13c574993273663d543e4d5c3e324454b3da4b14fd95321adc62c88c1c5