Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a693bb4754eca277…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-07-16 02:21:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8eddc225da0b2e3fbb8fef056758ede5 SHA-1: 913609d512798436b1998c487ecaf63f5c15ccb7 SHA-256: a693bb4754eca27780da5a79c47626539b9a0853080f7b1c45a10b42d85568fa
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links to compromised websites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to host malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the phishing lure attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e15e6b7a6661b49cefd1a8255766a73/76061289492.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://roocenter.ru/upload/file/nolatamigegaboluruvise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096f95966578---tabovuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lirealestatelitigator.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04021bbf3d7a64f1a215950fbcf940d1/gebekewamemoxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c144446eb93---muxilexifuledosadikif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmik-kino.ru/sadm_files/84443170077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realwebguys.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160917ca067a52---pepigedozivamaxusakofap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbcasagayathottam.org/assets/uploads/cms_images/files/18929850016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab594e3769a---92685484376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterpieces-mallorca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb4d057348085f40998aebcfa282e67b/80353488534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/tatozirenovubapogofise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/91988905301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0754fur7pe7jjtjcn1tnq7squ0/97557592941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba16f250d3---11565481520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://europavloeren.nl/siteimages/file/xubivodeziguwufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oio.cn/uploadfiles/files/56893358798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.photobreak.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b386b6e172---xagimuvowosumagose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/41005349046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/904ddafba72ff432041eb060e43604a4/38403839506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aal.tw/uploads/htmlupload/files/36021121652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be133cd709e---mufova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=hard+to+love+country+dancePDF 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_off0000ea2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA2D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010244.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10244 10372 bytes
SHA-256: c10a6a42f22593b7331347aa012cc8ffd9ebf2161338c026b5fd0c52af69b822
font_02_sfnt_off000119cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119CD 17556 bytes
SHA-256: 35ba339b4a24f2858a71319b87b7ad68631cbe368d43a9eaf4458f0d269484cb