Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 922c78f7e40626ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-02 11:57:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ecd37e6f8da5e59ea35153789629be7c SHA-1: c4290339a06e42fef2310e0bb77b51dcf94ebc33 SHA-256: 922c78f7e40626ff33f34b699b0d923a598de6de7b7eadb9943bff1aac4e0341
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm designed to host or redirect to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were directly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing lure that likely leads to a second-stage download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://www.nandomoraes.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d081de41f6---kilebazezolejane.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8816a51051---xinoberafoxovepixupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosafety.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lejugaromowezakidemonokux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sieuthigo.vn/upload/ck/files/90495386019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/pukajekaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d883a5ded37---88580427456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookmyweddingup.net/clients/73542/File/fisadufuzarazopivogeput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yetisirkaucuk.com/firma/files/72159477329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bienchidan.org/uploads/files/55696334844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygamedaysports.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e32b76d407888ebad328e9c24104842c/72000885906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/58540402715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/32991030330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgt-fo-csc.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cfcb4c2199---pubikaselodabebimisidab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neoville.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0a182ebcfc422ad405cfcdda4382263/84186326713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thegioioto.store/upload/files/38746310882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8dc5b9bb45fb66f97fd2b64f953bcb/16056472765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/zefugafatupuxubafokawoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alarisusallc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a5438f727fdc8f31445ca259970a257/dovokojaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/paluxikalodomuwabija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a805d045ae---26364432843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://italvaping.com/file/dunidatawim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schoonhovensvrouwenkoor.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fitufanuzixirofigeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfekttorun.pl/pliki/nobatorabibujaxeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maarsehoveniers.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161219ef1a1f1f---56657133670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=potong+halaman+file+pdfPDF 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_off0000d6c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C5 17576 bytes
SHA-256: 5d7a3695e01ce249a136ed6441e9b0ea96f2353f9e6a6488d15a15ce19d5c701
font_01_sfnt_off0001044a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1044A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011c61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C61 10680 bytes
SHA-256: ed75e394a91f746b0bc482a4e021e195da9f6207a21c1e72773bc9735adc98e1