Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 903bd5f310134c45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.3 KB Created: 2021-06-19 19:19:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 1302b25c8f12e16df5d521d6e862eee7 SHA-1: 2de74ec3340e4b914bb681668b17e661c4f54d71 SHA-256: 903bd5f310134c456082dc6fe7560c2f1d6e603497d92ead58f67be9c6dc95db
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure of downloading software, likely malicious given the other indicators. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL analysis point to a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/refuvepejemaxujukuzapiguv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a64c9c92750---8370368880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb9be6e6038---52380214202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/buzogegafumoviredosudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szabobuszrendeles.hu/files/files/ruwanuzafamifawamevexudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lushexperiences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727b0cd7fdb---2954926812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://decoveinvestment.com/userfiles/file/18794368485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/40171412952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://condominiovillage.com/userfiles/file/wonogaxigafeliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valifyrepapillon.com/clients/6/68/68e1c6a84db99a04c21676ff826d6e37/File/pilazajasenuvoxutari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/dojanimunidarolakenesene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drmiamiconnect.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/60435d0904db21073232b80f4ae3a539/68189449006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chiringuitomediterraneo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14607724497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88df79540d712174eecdc0fede9200c1/61057876200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=office+2007+download+with+crackPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c9f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9F7 5468 bytes
SHA-256: 737255b751154c76ac5f53691fc723e1148347ea55d3727a0b9b433c65714b10
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCAF 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 83aa4b73135b8aad5b8b8211f9d256bf0e2467684094884fa5b16c5dccf60412