Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 738da589783ea4dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-21 17:09:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 120dcdf12fc2ce55f0a26a0df105c53b SHA-1: c5ccc2f5a38715809c303fbaf98e519ad2a2117f SHA-256: 738da589783ea4dd73f0d9a500035be26110dadb01710fc8577430bf1b0cc474
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of lures like 'download buttons' and QR code references suggests a social engineering approach to facilitate malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+android+fortnite
    • http://szguilong.com/userfiles/files/wuremek.pdf
    • http://dochoiotovn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/91606908439.pdf
    • http://veiligheidsslot.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/giragokegejizigovokes.pdf
    • https://atlastoursntravels.com/userfiles/file/mutusewikaz.pdf
    • http://nscenter.cn/upload/files/vowasi.pdf
    • https://dollarplus98.com/images/upload/files/65680277646.pdf
    • https://nasikampung.info/contents/files/79937411208.pdf
    • http://www.tlo.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55018607953.pdf
    • https://tbsva.org/Upload/files/20210906152000.pdf
    • https://www.ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98370500855.pdf
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379b9aa1f70---lisujimunurekufegin.pdf
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140af4889569---12357000250.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161313f424c861---dojerevalujoxeg.pdf
    • https://iamtimeshare.com/userfiles/file/35779053473.pdf
    • http://backkwang.com/userData/board/file/60966746665.pdf
    • https://snqrsl.quebec/upload/editor/file/46270616672.pdf
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210904175605112.pdf
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613757855d9fd---70604875837.pdf
    • http://www.physedu.in/newsite/userfiles/files/28281759084.pdf
    • https://vienhung.com/webroot/img/files/27315425921.pdf
    • http://coachhouse.info/assets/file/zanujudemuwabenobetutebud.pdf
    • http://www.startbatteries.gr/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wilikukuni.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd5a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD5A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f571.bin
cb4aed914d38463b20250dfac6a2b0326a77db0e0b756012e0f58e5ccd98d248
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF571 10268 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010ca6.bin
040aad5c8e9d056969603bcd08ca1aa9d3d2e4210b0d003895bb3b81a20f3577
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CA6 18672 bytes