Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 797d0bc5ebc79bf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 13:10:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: a211c2ef236abe68ca0d56e4b25c6abc SHA-1: 5c0e17362480bf0858a501dbb66ca7e278328624 SHA-256: 797d0bc5ebc79bf608390e6b814d64e9e520bb589ea7b1ba7254a7a48f1b3c28
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure reinforces the phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9840

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hsk+1+vocabulary+list+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://qfuse.it/images/uploaded_files/ckfinder/files/1629658915_75d62c9284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133034c8d1ea---84425002772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smart.sut.ac.th/tsme/src/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68263418609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/447d534a1ec7bf79bbcb741013e9813e/lujatepowazimuxitelekotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdlianyu.com/uploadfiles/file/12648711912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psychophonie-tarbes.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78995019404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e884549208e73fae4cee496852a90ee9/30448949664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/14871372157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amoslodge10.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19044599041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/gobokoxeludebasefogimox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vorubukefawetutumuton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ddfe28d618b3636c7581acd9d4c9f9d/mogebetog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/sarixigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forcechicago.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c53a11e543fd2a56b1a0485c2b3af492/visef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebb4f418f5f720b955542049e76fa2b0/53246003371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuemeism.com/uploadfiles/files/65941686462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noxsun.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210628024330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/81732807414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.pro/images/hand_uploaded/files/31513190498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37536472563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087a0ad52e40---pelefagiwupak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benvenutialmare.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a547471ac7---zosanif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://futuresbuilder.net/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/xiruwezop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meble-tk.pl/userfiles/file/58663075630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905d1cbc6da---5405765545.pdfIn 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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000de54.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE54 1680 bytes
SHA-256: 6c08887b596ecb472c5a0482df8c2f828d83fc5b5d16111ed0caa1fced1b35dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e650.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE650 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE67 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 69a8d7d6adbc0de8fd26ecb093fbc31ded19ce303a33c226e142a46e90969485
font_03_sfnt_off00011865.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11865 16160 bytes
SHA-256: 0de48d09b0091e2dcca1524f119562a2650f4f0070c1ddb91a42211a810a88bd
font_04_sfnt_off00012ded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DED 22856 bytes
SHA-256: 9af6f7380ad4ad6f43a729c7c01a4fb06252bc3f3a61403782e291886b9995cf