Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 941774c96b6cde0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

111.1 KB Created: 2021-07-13 21:58:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 613e8fef65bd9a67ea4782fac58fbdb1 SHA-1: 7de3287e4e5ec6e239e46de967d013366df5b9a3 SHA-256: 941774c96b6cde0a98c3720cc2e67cff1a2e75b683f2b2af1e8f92d810b5ce72
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified the PDF as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://alsterparkett.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jit80ii3timvd352j2shm84lg7/rigeregevawemopumezutemu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://veraschwemmle.de/fckdata/file/45565007688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02101a3b0b009f5c3f96749ed0a68e50/80365955805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flexa.cz/docs/file/gavedalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/58847690004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93222582490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905cfc80ee4---jerobebobari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/dalokulibiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://altonika.pro/files/fck/file/27987208722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/23150499556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://led7.ru/file/peliwibewalifofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/sasasovegujobijarodofuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10b77e361b60e7feeea5238f42c586cf/89702939270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917fac85509---73684717873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fb67638c1a---54522617746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog//file/kukedukur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/53494422738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b57e8d0d307---26027467204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//busujixawutarakisenozexos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbb0a2d1474---zulovojosopojetewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160727752cbc8f---vikafexesixafavel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c18a61a0f0---medolosuvimopumotegas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikailang.net/userfiles/file/20210523134551_1849812216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servis-hradec.cz/files/file/63976286520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=2wire+homeportal+1000sw+manualPDF 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_off00014ee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EE4 17736 bytes
SHA-256: 389f7accb765472f009dbb6f54c0c92fc5b7a5d8de339abda4f099052b7c4a59
font_01_sfnt_off00017dec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17DEC 10900 bytes
SHA-256: 740479cb92480637115da8116f28e9124bf99c7281b04e6271df4b34e25df127
font_02_sfnt_off00019716.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19716 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1