Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 802476941230d035…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-07-07 16:20:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 3d048b047fa3b6f60c2ad527636a4cdf SHA-1: 5d63c1c05cd8b311bba128fd206092b27d185e9a SHA-256: 802476941230d0353ed436f654f9e5ed269fe66b4fe7d394f84fea1079c87492
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a high number of embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9941

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=porn+induced+erectile+dysfunction PDF link annotation
    • http://thietbianninh188.com/uploads/files/83892004771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///tasixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irish-setter-zucht.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ketotawuborejemekogabuput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecacf2790205237d11b1b5b79d42fcb8/81002996665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://breakevenpoint.pl/uploads/editor/file/roveduxexafuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paardenwelzijnscheck.nl/app/webroot/files/ckeditor_files/files/93883161403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a02fa7d5a3---figatadifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushikyototogo.com/uploads/files/zexemiludowoniwasuzev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b8a5a96653---3483281670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbakirkoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b4db5bc21---89326680086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skncn.com/u/files/54683129247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projetounificado.com/uploads/files/siledotidavaxeneto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machinegroup.ru/img/outer/files/diboxogajafodirileva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gz-topstar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/655135a30da62bd41cf3e3be596284ec/selud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nbrownies.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cd03ce3f77---76117641914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e02a823fe4---lolib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/77158205605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1853853d77---vivuvesinivom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dchs80.com/clients/c/cb/cbc185099defa3274d3d4f74835fd64f/File/95449726464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chrmglobal.com/userfiles/file/pifavivarure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8ea30cdbc0---34210533948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/56e33d3a9888ef85cb901de9e1f2caf1/41514553796.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e8f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F3 16228 bytes
SHA-256: f2666e95f4599b990980a0abf2f374fe3006e34437484733904d739abeeb93bf
font_01_sfnt_off0000fed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFED8 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 3893d4c10284c18066ff725a928f70f1ca59c363c34843a69dd18a6c1e6fd277
font_02_sfnt_off000116f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116F8 17124 bytes
SHA-256: 34cf168a6b7fd27ed60a7e239d3265b850fad1f2332832a5f9cc5f8c029111c1
font_03_sfnt_off00014378.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14378 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1