Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 988511b0c950ec29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-07-30 01:33:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 262d82236faab20526a7693e25586ad3 SHA-1: 189afd0acacf965dc50a6d4cf2ca27da486f0dd3 SHA-256: 988511b0c950ec29b3cb557ca5f38614bcc2e38a6105739a3d9a4d0893b194f1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this, indicating the document's purpose is to trick users into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bengali+to+sanskrit+learning+pdf
    • https://www.movingwithmagna.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1de044593bea823af49a1fee0546d51c/17334281852.pdf
    • http://www.circoloaletrium.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a98982ce08d---vagovonijotizatinaki.pdf
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094da52138d7---28019639553.pdf
    • http://jpmoto.biz/upload_picture/lekibeb.pdf
    • http://wjcopy.com/upload/files/74976099257.pdf
    • https://canadianrelocation.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086966d1df30---45954114763.pdf
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/vejevofunitov.pdf
    • http://www.salpasafarit.fi/tiedostot/files/94012928764.pdf
    • http://aligokdemir.com/resimler/files/78008626666.pdf
    • http://stolizstekla.ru/userfiles/file/jijodurusufaruba.pdf
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607408f6a5d0c---zafokufuzabubudizelolixeb.pdf
    • http://rghsalumni.com/clients/82979/File/jikegedipekoj.pdf
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hh2r4fanj8335uklk73n9sdto5/xajitesetopepamevenunisex.pdf
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0e89ae61cb9d7a189b1985c79cb4c57/35712687088.pdf
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1jqdiaug99pji8j5a6h3o2afgr/lakonanobepex.pdf
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8a9e491e6a---dejewus.pdf
    • http://geology.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b946a18ea35---42491568558.pdf
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64d8b1ffe56a9a1780254f6e954f7e92/17511630719.pdf
    • https://eatorhours.org/e-bussiness/fckimages/file/68860891314.pdf
    • http://bukharaatlanta.com/sites/default/files/file/nupezemanusuromenatoga.pdf
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba8e19267bf---16208328047.pdf
    • http://guilfordvikingsclassof81.com/clients/4/47/479b0a304b4cdce99dfe3eda73a59016/File/zidigibizisafupisutexef.pdf
    • http://beiwendq.com//data/attachment/file/tirafetuf.pdf
    • http://suankaew.net/upload/userfile/files/sasaf.pdf
    • http://arch-teh.com/pic/userfile/66940054119.pdf
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160876d8904b17---59468277032.pdf
    • 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_off0000fd02.bin
8374d320fd2991707e3edf6e037f877189bd4b8555752c960e1b05e9c31326da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD02 17312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001298f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1298F 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000141a6.bin
b57db7016cbf2ae01e28033af935c543e351795c517326ba75080a6c5c87397f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141A6 10816 bytes