Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1e40f6c87dfc268…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-06-10 15:13:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 31f56145ff15a022b132d991b07fd56b SHA-1: c543c3375c6de3ba0017f5f0e6ad254aa077717b SHA-256: a1e40f6c87dfc268fce3f57b7b96c97565df003dbd30c9b6235278a1b7b98ea7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to obscure the true malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Jazbaa full movie download', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jazbaa+full+movie+download PDF link annotation
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e3fcd1fbe415e3e51d4f3f1ff10338c/sibagoxovamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostingalani.com/calisma2/files/uploads/dulejuxapivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shethof.ch/cgi-bin/dynamisch/file/zodamupawuliwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gupejufinuvogakajetiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://englewoodgrassfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bcfdcc9ae8ceba6d338205761021a9af/ladinorilukaxopusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084768ee1b98---70460900227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://southtours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9irhrue565q6o23r1vc0s1tqf1/77562374356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigxra.com/uploadfile/file/2021051923155573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bawaconstructions.com/editorData/file/luxefolebeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q11fe66l6c0hsa95g36t5s32k4/bajokumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949f14ab090---69225391122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc2917e131c---19904442161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/arfu7pj1tc6re166pc1akbo4jh/48086484207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/26994737629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086170315883---tukopadoratavijizidosiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q7d0tjr4ql3fg5s90u20cfmb05/22013371325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cremeconferences.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77baa8ed4275777a2db70af4f4e8975e/zesigoperidofebaxununer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0-50.ru/userfiles/file/wavudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6BC 5108 bytes
SHA-256: b8a2bc2d71e095710b2b3395841ef56facd4c6f98b4e015ea3341e29a2c65094
font_01_sfnt_off00010836.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10836 10696 bytes
SHA-256: dffe3c125f687bbc05c312c05451eeb61dc7ef5ff7f5a21d496ecfbaa54563d3