Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7353918883cdd844…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.2 KB Created: 2021-07-30 10:15:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f60c59c57f3bf4bcdca587f8ffed5b2e SHA-1: 8e1f63da49ebadc4cbb5e7bb12bcf3075ea21476 SHA-256: 7353918883cdd844da1f808a55c8e8ac7a8ee664ed7fe0a2c278d88d8d60c6d4
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, with some links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malware. The presence of external URIs and the 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic further support the conclusion that this PDF is designed to trick users into downloading malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://ferest.ro/imagini_ws/37401055337.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074d9859c518---11224113538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richfield1960.com/clients/865265/File/danufis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arniuniversity.in/ci/userfiles/files/61664588098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agaa2anfqdp.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96894654668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c141d46a4c3---jetumazurikoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iominneapolis.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4981360df44d169c28086d6e05f2e12e/jubigapulitafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pvsystreports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9r8c8o3bf4ldgo60oaosl2tc4/xijutekuzojatutakibunegof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vh3qms1gv0mq8ssfhv6mdvk827/sazubelivuwodovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugsinc.in/UserFiles/files/rawufamopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vlajamo.cz/images/file/vobogibituko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c98e131765---83032289048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ediliziaindustriale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7adc419de9---20038867667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2b6860a17aaccd395a6736c56dfbbe7/magefijalono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609642634314d---37365202434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coumert.com/images/file/mulokojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609251f8118d9---13705076446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreaseals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wenasivarisadetunomagizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berbun.com/user_img/file/38158328652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hbbh1spalqq95l9rvq90v1oqem/13378403435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f2785d08a---somud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/90745333489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncostruzioni.com/userfiles/file/97924362300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aal.tw/uploads/htmlupload/files/47177628975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+sharp+alarm+clock+model+spc293PDF 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_off0000fde7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE7 18268 bytes
SHA-256: b3854137fbfa8ffa8ad3e88dc4b0222b66869f8a895ad125df36a98d289106d6
font_01_sfnt_off00012e5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E5D 11212 bytes
SHA-256: ee148fb40d654cd394df230c66feae6da15ccdba0ea8883a03aa25d3929eea5d
font_02_sfnt_off000148cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x148CF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1