Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7afecaba7bea52c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-14 03:53:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c486d1dd81559296fdfefadcb4dfe2b6 SHA-1: 25f4f2193c3f3391def353b0c17938fd7695dbed SHA-256: 7afecaba7bea52c8e4918a12454c08a1a496349cc5346a292441940028fe4747
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to various URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, likely to facilitate the download of a secondary payload. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/78484103131.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://familiehollander.nl/images/uploadedimages/file/baxulot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096bfe86b36b---48304229980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terhautz.com/upload_files/files/nameboxifofup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084354a7c6b2---luwakojupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098a349dd960---zufekodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.romanschatztruhe.de/img/files/toxujazerijupebexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/rafibekemojorodavus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/madifosos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607062d1a3b97---kalosifapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502025209403920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twothirdsmajority.us/clients/38522/File/278032927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abb10504d5---87909269239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa62f8cc3670b3e0764186a35474c304/46214134674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/42329194631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080d8570e8af---74795766802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ka-base.no/images_content/file/20111671363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24a87706a36e808354d762c8e28b982d/33933729254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brod-plovdiv.com/images/muvakumofaxibiwukogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acryl-bg.com/userfiles/file/69171272362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupkaishan.com/d/files/1251935788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muachungbaohiem.com/uploads/userfiles/file/tigaloku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erbilsunhotel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdldkbenrrg65d46q0t3coqjk4/95279340501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metafelix.it/userfiles/files/186824775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=hymn+to+tune+of+danny+boyPDF 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_off0000eda1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA1 17648 bytes
SHA-256: 6ba3dd1b4a9871bda85eb6af66515b76fe304464b3cac64fc0383363328508d8
font_01_sfnt_off00011c1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013432.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13432 10456 bytes
SHA-256: c0575736fdac582509104359b33f33d9ee2057ea26d6d200d0743af49d272fff