Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a417f4cde2fb1b06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-09-08 12:01:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0330b5d950fd54ebb6b5ba4de888d166 SHA-1: 65acf5a8c2067081d8ee1fb2f69f7194d02aa2f8 SHA-256: a417f4cde2fb1b06c0f81dce59010a19e790ad27884f133da361daf0b412b579
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The presence of numerous links pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, combined with the ML classifier's high confidence, indicates a malicious intent. The document likely functions as a lure to download a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/52727219774.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e47f3d8c6acd2ef110cc65992127c034/90722400168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hometeamcorp.com/images/usr/22156031377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vgi-vn.vn/app/webroot/img/files/12692218268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olympusflights.com/files/files/57043618695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flatadministration.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/sogisijidibiverujonuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alariel.be/userfiles/file/veropubosazeguxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theemperorsoldclothes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m9cgu06jvhbru788osschvm41v/fijitusigit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyklo-wellness-penzion-palice.cz/content/sedejatulavapuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visualmotion.nl/uploads/file/49073267911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gesundheit-im-blog.de/userfiles/file/xusujov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parentini.it/userfiles/files/50834390694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/mujipovari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qgic6s596qlst6v3algcr6rbt6/lamameduvifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/tediw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/172559986861029ba8d5b1c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhdljz.com/userfiles/file/1625721041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160860ff1c89b0---nilugez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.com/images/upload/File/46359162216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a707e0042d---37721591649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seventyfirstclassof69.com/clients/60772/File/60468371794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/34419580752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fukaofoods.tw/uploads/files/202109022010098203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/parelatetevuwamebifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=o+p+gupta+chemical+engineering+objective+book+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000c484.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC484 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC96 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 4f7e9e2c5fa9b227631afbe51c581b3e03556f4f6c0b2b2b64b06e6c0223b407
font_02_sfnt_off0001089e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1089E 11540 bytes
SHA-256: eb94064ba19e0aefad5a24226c881061c518a999e7f2d1d3ea0428c598c5265f