Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 870711d0e4ea34e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 17:02:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 464d36cef9e428f8e6221056183dd472 SHA-1: 54be8d0720cf6081cfe19ad40863f6d26dfa5063 SHA-256: 870711d0e4ea34e257d4783fb3d353c41deaf3b32565ab9dbf6d8daea1fdf5b0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The presence of a 'Download Now' lure and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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 http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/jogadidabudofumaxise.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mosconi.net/userfiles/file/vumanat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayurherbal.com/userfiles/file/numenesuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://murten-hotel.ch/userfiles/files/20336964150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d99e7c3ffd0---66618370353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gfhs1978reunion.com/clients/56625/File/31347742030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcca0df5f7eddc7e431b78f423627181/kugijoraworiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenshopvn.com/uploads/files/dizevanogobowefumaline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/78866794808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d51221f39c---34947572657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimhoatra.com/upload/fckimagesfile/49201628289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repetitorebi.ge/userfiles/files/65027484154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://princeverma.in/uploads/files/lipivosekigiveja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atrium-tuiles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d8dfba74d---vitumovomudojomamolufala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.miamiairportlimo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098361335b0d---3219699215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160790fe9e307a---37177910452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prikolnaya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67e9c2447c4b5c9040e6dc582457df5c/75903342124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autobedrijvenindex.nl/images/uploads/60587265013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoadon-dientu.net/images/files/70075481028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/kevobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohmamakitchen.com/uploads/files/58647958378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taxicityplus.ru/userfiles/file/fexugemexukere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhodium.vn/uploads/news_file/14246501530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muzeumkonstancina.pl/attachments/file/bujotujogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/sanadiburupuxabafogetofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+convert+pdf+to+outlook+emailPDF 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_off0000dd99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD99 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 3d90c5ab662058e1d9e48af2c7148334200564689c505a28aadbdc024d6d7e51
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EF 17072 bytes
SHA-256: 890da28177c29b7057ee2f938882db1d6d738a719fbf2ea45f2fd51a2c006ef2
font_02_sfnt_off0001238d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1238D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1