Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a857a9a206cbf6d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-22 13:31:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e9b0ba7e8aff66ee2f5d73f26d2483c6 SHA-1: 1f3e5d6f8569aca258a2c255bd0f5b0a66254f7e SHA-256: a857a9a206cbf6d3ce08c84cb26fb7f01f770ec5eca02b0639f052dbd9a8fa7a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, presenting numerous URLs that lead to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS upload storage. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic suggests a lure to trick users into clicking these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://dwornawodzie.pl/userfiles/file/bolutoxojozisokutepet.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161442ba57ffb0---larizijipepitenigebatag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shijijiaming.cn/filespath/files/20210901211300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/908a9d185801295071068e6b7cd346ec/mimubiborusixomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/gozogafafod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fskyok.com/uploadfile/files/wejesimisibukovuxugufopub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magazinul-de-instalatii-sanitare.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/dazemomuzagapuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joinsocialbubble.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/56749860639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harposwebdesign.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/mewap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tcsklife.com/filespath/files/20210905233159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legyenegyjonapod.hu/userfiles/files/53993991373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azs-szermierka.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/92623196357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/nusopiwoboxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b61d385b57---20914805405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapa-technika.cz/UserFiles/File/77483514849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papaicountrylodge-longstay.com/user_img/files/pebekogolusexamosujodevaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f233f24a31---39234656310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://niboparis.com/upload/fckeditor/files/85749598145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brenno-tojestto.pl/userfiles/file/12108063315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137888a1c95d---50329576252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://castudio.eu/userfiles/files/15419676483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613073e013e2e---giwulonapumuwivuxide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614aee181b6e3---66528308162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=free+fire+game+apk+and+obbPDF 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_off0000e0fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0FE 17924 bytes
SHA-256: cab7399e050bd8fa19db56c5a8acfe25ac722b66b7a8d869f56cd0b53d099bd1
font_01_sfnt_off00010fd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000127eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127EB 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 1fe7ea9a3962e72f6b002c1038013a0ab1c975af851a4e5761b9189249d76af4