Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d5ba9979a6e6e46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-30 16:31:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: f5d66cc0e6f1d7d70117f435208c7570 SHA-1: 8ab557e9a1dc92f001629d11bbc82bdcd53998f2 SHA-256: 8d5ba9979a6e6e467ede9be879cc789437d220cd45f51ec7b84112d11d065bc2
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, and a visual download button lure. The presence of these elements suggests the document is designed to trick users into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rooms+de+nintendo+64+para+android PDF link annotation
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b37e53c84f21173c2d7a535615b166bb/61778187053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615256de086a4---fifukadowizod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16151249fa0504---somaxavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/97190221535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://squarcialupirelaxinchianti.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/wibokobaruwuwobewikagav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermea.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pofemupegolotatafolezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instant-image.net/UserFiles/Site/File/wururagukom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20djsp7cksq5pt8pionu2evi54/nabaduzedogaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/xowojuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firstpages.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/92477310022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajarnveerapong.com/UserFiles/file/17501581462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinyoungvalve.com/userData/board/file/83228940253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://portsidestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93f47e1bc5f0bc9f75d98c2f1fbb2b6a/91180642775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/sodom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fundacionecla.org/resources/original/file/84224803849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harrisitalia.it/uploads/file/89255878366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://besteva.com/upload/files/juxirifasezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wyslijpaczki.pl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/file/derovomigaromevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/15847099461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59432520418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dar-tom.pl/userfiles/file/muwex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozanatalan.com/iboard/includes/userfiles/files/dipokarevijogukezizerer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-energy.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pajaweme.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b2e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2E1 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 8207ca13ea16d4757abbb8e7ed14ce870f8c6c000e60e69d8161a5a97915f8b3
font_01_sfnt_off0000de36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE36 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f64d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF64D 10800 bytes
SHA-256: 0bca23d600a9990cc0adbfb3e83a0eb05b3893ad7dbdb8e6508314bcf638de0d