Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 933404b514ad4111…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-07-02 22:14:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 04914aa0f885c62c783d078d6a9576bb SHA-1: b244a783a1644b179573283b56b947571d307c24 SHA-256: 933404b514ad4111515ab834acd51d75b3f21dc4e06f6344f03a98b3907f02a7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms and appear to be part of a link farm designed to improve search engine rankings for malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE' strongly indicates the document's purpose is to deceive users with a fake lottery or parcel delivery scam. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm activity suggest it is designed to lead users to malicious content, likely a phishing page or further malware download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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.
  • 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://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609abc8026151---16045799087.pdf
    • https://jclifeschools.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc52e3c82f83a4630addfdda30381c61/94104211708.pdf
    • http://amexeuro.com/an3_Uploads/file/bowagokezakid.pdf
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/guvunukiwamimeradezor.pdf
    • https://xn--faades-mtal-n9a6a.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tugovas.pdf
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/lanelotuj.pdf
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25f6c916db08a7875fe106cbd424ef26/77508741871.pdf
    • http://phuocthuan.vn/images/pic/file/823500881.pdf
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16om3lvlllekcsvpbgrisi29c1/22646746144.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dd887cd46fc---30202757375.pdf
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4273498f9f---9036315869.pdf
    • https://ochronaskory.pl/pliki_user/File/98475211560.pdf
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc9351ae85d---88126730430.pdf
    • https://norservis.com/files/files/fimizizo.pdf
    • http://evevoyance.fr/adh/.-/file/14674225283.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99e538d2d90868e27f9d5a81b0943c7f/75717324082.pdf
    • https://annekienlen.fr/imagesfile/66524962594.pdf
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc25b4189ba6b49cdda0fab690ed1445/39955084598.pdf
    • https://www.grandiosa.is/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/coi71dr26kaclgkpm0qt0qmdr5/vuduridebebunenarirex.pdf
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ad65a929ed---jolakef.pdf
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3d4a4e69e4e962e10244925a82dbea7/zofavadupizidavikunedebob.pdf
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab958ae8f89---39719691385.pdf
    • https://dallaslandscapedesign.com/media/files/56252790151.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=which+game+is+more+popular+roblox+or+minecraft
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fd3f.bin
c46b001b05f6b765021b9da5176f87d6599fd40c0f35f2dea2ccc4d8a197a0bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD3F 17736 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012b62.bin
1fceb31957ba69325fb639a160e0cccdd34c9c29d0aaec2e5a14e6ec4c08a692
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B62 11260 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014577.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14577 16792 bytes