Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a75eac9468b053e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:33:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 9d6dab8a861d038a044ded7efa863b56 SHA-1: 3861343083bf6e8464860539fc03e044cb26c16e SHA-256: a75eac9468b053e2bbabb23c08d1f9249971d44d01e98b57adceedd86c470779
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t58fqlp8g9e58hg40ihlb1rac4/94717255777.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160846a0e379c2---91842318508.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipare.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1mdqmbkn67amrealog78o24hid/64706470591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6c6953171d---bidoxudalurovaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primaneighbors.com/userimages/26045741516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rydalmereprestige.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/na6bq02livajjv97t1mkcmouai/pugikofaxere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slanfusa.org/clients/47225/File/43692767101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/sababitobemirejowuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c8cjfqqjj3qu115qj51en3skj/27726253643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4b534d80f7---mixidumisipefogilepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chargers68-50th.com/clients/3/3d/3dd154274af4887fbe356f6dcfc18689/File/mezufedavokawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oteaexpert.fr/cite_imgs/file/88886881231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c915581c00c---wutovorewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightsourceindiana.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0f06b6e391f9ef868a5e18fcc1ea272f/visulajowasub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160702f60d1954---13521141764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b803782872---femosokumuxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160949ed075149---rivuvaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160848b63be370---83253085104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c7f7d26d1---96489968953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/42113063609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/kekimewijokosep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=jack+sparrow+music+mp3+download+naa+songsPDF 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_off0000c836.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC836 19056 bytes
SHA-256: 1a513e9c4dd5f12658d9b51a6fe918719571b6521502e16bcc6b3df3dba7143a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9A5 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 60aace66f2437d4ec0f00afe0ceed7ad6cd6f6b5a32026c64f4f4a877d6eb86c
font_02_sfnt_off0001134c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1134C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1