Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 903463549e7a9578…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 22:49:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: e6c17f0bba00a3fcc35c32632ab77145 SHA-1: 2b4e3ce545154e2895920fd52e246c6d6da23398 SHA-256: 903463549e7a95781e35117c8ebfbe51bb6462883a7da32478f0ee178f634a36
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a "download button" heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the heuristics and URLs strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ps2pdf+converter+download+windows+10 PDF link annotation
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82bfb5970a37e285374fe237d83e22f8/rikapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corising.info/sa_upload/userfiles/file/20210913103616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soldearenales.com/galeria/files/34463783170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5b42cad524f26c5b1fc1ab8fec91518/vumogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariabilancino.it/userfiles/files/84639739767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqbnb.com/uploadfile/file/xomitufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bezagsecurity.cz/userfiles/sexazegupagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samowar.me/upload/file/dofejodefutosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf76571d99ec2060330f1abd31dcc0a/76186443867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.com/FCKeditor/file/85910336052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fd-health.com/upload/ckeditor/files/fabar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b57964ef9f---lagamelirudazotuvezogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anclupnapoli.it/userfiles/file/moduxuganawixaguroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biswasi.com/userfiles/files/kukipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.champagne-cornevin.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24646551481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourhong.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_5FB1C76B3857B01A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dermatologie-chamonix.com/userfiles/file/87549654506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotechike.com/files/files/26059785194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g4m3s-4p1-12s1.com/contents/files/64291166361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncltandatbar.com/home/ncltandat/public_html/dowalumniusa/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vanotamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131fae8c7d04---gufaxomeganikafokoviwuwot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkeempat.com/contents/files/52817985231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ride-on-earth.com/images/blog/file/85787430283.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_off0000bbe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBE8 16092 bytes
SHA-256: a8b6317cb1f3dfa105c43062f966073d68b9652bf6f1a88fd7d88fd109c00624
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D7 11060 bytes
SHA-256: 977af67713679af6616e97c82f7e9cf4499b9b25816a5986a3e7c3d0624818da
font_02_sfnt_off0000feda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEDA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1