Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 83fb6fd486f1ea6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 13:52:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: dd3707ec070a93889c6be7b600d804ab SHA-1: 38583d77da7742c001ada865188bcf359fa94dbb SHA-256: 83fb6fd486f1ea6f19af05dcfd49c90d9ae56926658951cf107ae42d7ee9639c
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. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://www.radioemka.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ed1d2bae9e---23567717293.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pabrikangka.com/contents//files/wasufojapivigen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdaudit.ro/userfiles/file/gilixenutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dthtpc629odt5jbaq68r793idi/suxasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgadsahodayatarntaran.org/sahodyatarntarannew/userfiles/file/84156501987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/gazixodewipuranozimajobup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f5a6fcd721---87530553294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a32d279deb1944840cb489386ea18bc2/74250112398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drrajanmahtani.com/userfiles/files/82981330043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resheto.ru/users_images//fck/file/wusuvirotozetizim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/29267382386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbabak5acz7byau.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de57f078b8dcc4f95630ba9fa052886f/10502904962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhtuyenquang.com/home/maytinhtuy/domains/maytinhtuyenquang.com/public_html/images/file/bemejipipopijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d52c354bd---tizigimuwazokosur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4reality.cz/userfiles/files/42038680141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomland.com/sites/bloomland.com/files/50891836683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24310700782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/76556109961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021626194516322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chamsocmuihong.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dpiovi7ddirqm42a26llbm65lq/99372794129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steclotildehorton.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608596892e87e---fatefowupibirubip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1e7f6c48ef---8870828229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brilliantsolarpaneling.com/userfiles/file/viduborevadepofidarimukil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6rfp5dnl14v0m6515q0pp1u57r/fosiwafimobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaupa.cz/userfiles/file/28310439626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=worksheet+on+probability+for+class+10PDF 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_off0000e718.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE718 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF2A 19876 bytes
SHA-256: 5445e64d2993d896d5687a617fac94f51d0fc0978a4a2a57c608da61be2dd64f
font_02_sfnt_off0001323b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1323B 11088 bytes
SHA-256: ded8edb414f0d156d95ea6e09ac7cb3fc14a822b3a1146bc10f65e106522b7d1