Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 809cfe2250b713e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 08:56:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 179862a0e462301b8abccadff5d1cdfe SHA-1: 4ed3ea96072445b0d7e36b5f2d6ddee1589aef20 SHA-256: 809cfe2250b713e69e4c25c8cb831899a1582b778a70c1d2711932321da72e2c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54575aa319468dec430081e0a413305d/40930427791.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chiangmaicharmingtravel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kukanuzuzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dk269hnmn9u44340ka3edmcarl/vuzogagomoxewupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c326c733641---96179872074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609203a7cea90---75776738412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiab.net/userData/board/file/fakiputusewanuvebedazev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/53909909298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160944f65454ea---solavabet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/56965421264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16290363334493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djhelaly.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2892d8fd9291f3dd132909a27d5d3e09/25976314727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megaprestige.ru/uploads/files/52432548762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forumhrdbekasi.com/webroot/userfiles/files/99108669745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlsxjy.com/right/UploadFile/file///2021072321103873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089df56f260d---kodejesixexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heydarbaba.org/resimler/files/51205365003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jakspravnenapsa.cz/userfiles/file/xowezurigikomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.makathastaliklari.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083e3d3481ab---kuwefizumada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mfdesign.hu/files/file/88997755195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb89f7f5a2medf9rqs8kh1v7g6/jegobupoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092fbf5802f8---96414481317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://houstoncoinshow.org/FCKeditor/file/rotosudarovetuwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://festivaldeliteraturadepereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0fe7ebdd41---60735677199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e74de4c736---40405874965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=rocking+chair+plans+pdfPDF 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_off0000d62c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD62C 19888 bytes
SHA-256: 8a19d76d072b91c4983e3a04ceb2a59bca13afd0af127f02b8d2deebbc69a9eb
font_01_sfnt_off00010939.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10939 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12150 10804 bytes
SHA-256: c2ab5b8f4323c15084937f9db80da1feb575fecdb8be118d29b7c75bf6796a60