Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a012ab815f4c7529…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 18:16:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5b418f16de704f0b4c2d9cdae0da4aaf SHA-1: 758028e41ae5de0a3de9c9a06215b4e8d136895b SHA-256: a012ab815f4c75293ab2c48d774c7d08127654e93dcbe73f6b8fd71a7f63a762
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that employs a link farm strategy, hosting the malicious PDF on multiple compromised and disposable domains. Heuristics indicate a high likelihood of malicious content, with ClamAV specifically identifying it as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://husplaza.hu/editor_up/wokoridasigogenesibe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://runhouchem.com/upload/files/davujiligonira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4eef9f191---timiguwitowabifis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/60095676441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myxroad.net/upload/userfiles/file///wewuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/72871497149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slxiang.com/v15/Upload/file/2021941819451507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maria-galland.ru/files/file/nolimobuloxazakozel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://captaincook.hu/userfiles/file/57308321458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613704a525f2d---masidawidaxivumisexufod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarna-zapiekanki.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92257560535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krossi.ru/images/content/files/67793569426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poultech.net/d/files/gigunipopezukuwigopuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mpstqe9stp54nidh2kjk6j1itv/28098282246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jgweld18.com/UploadFile/file/20210908180014813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhiinverter.com/media/ftp/file/16078348518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingmanplanningdemo.com/userfiles/files/93358195869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gospel-pour-100-voix.com/fichiers/newsletter/file/9248938994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomekorea.com/userData/board/file/goguzekekixekafadaxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/18041832988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonmathunglan.vn/upload/files/9155998856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://finestblogger.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/otfdb6k6923ch788idnr4vidd1/kelobuwolegokidobexuxegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lekkermooi.nl/userfiles/file/zozimuxetujefegal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jecoexports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lexavevuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/voxujarila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherwoodchambergolf.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nepolebuvuvudabibixevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyo-sanritsu.com/userfiles/file/47455186393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhtoangalaxyhotel.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/89602138738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=unconventional+machining+process+book+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_off0000db9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3B1 11372 bytes
SHA-256: ad184fccaa518eff1bacc6c3878ee46571fe8d4ccac9fa9b03f5542aa5adb5cd
font_02_sfnt_off00010dd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD9 17264 bytes
SHA-256: 2969d55595619462fd10186369746f94d737e4cd5d61768b34d3f478243b6068