Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8e1b8438b52c712…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:10:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4a37d22585477618f5a62003f18136c8 SHA-1: b5553f485370ad226fc91649c313eb3621b36365 SHA-256: a8e1b8438b52c712ca45c2e54210698866549755a5e0f0313887c17a0d133055
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://hebammenglueck.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vikilu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://househouse.it/userfiles/files/79564827281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codienlanhtrangia.com/Images_upload/files/59510855624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bishnutoursandtravels.in/userfiles/file/5523717588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofantino.it/userfiles/files/figagukezafivuvetixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nessium.fr/userfiles/file/32906628556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e7e539fb45ffeb5009e4f0b53057156/23764281532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubesealer.com/uploaded/file/631052883613e5adabe301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demkapi.com/resimler/files/dulugilovetizasufoderik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holmeslawfirm-iowa.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/dojuroxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://timminsrenovations.ca/file/Yc3ZuRGjedjwZUsY.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30148274689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fc451e3b96---68268340871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54849748478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhdplumbing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce2691d2ac7db9df591bf29d4b23f151/96158604444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/68571462885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsydesign.com/userfiles/jws/files/wuwoputiruxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hybsch.it/upload/file/bezugegovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/86323477500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbo.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32821814016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitoursegypt.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8418268738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canvangdientu.com/images/file/nitikemomix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cezartravel.hu/userfiles/file/63921562291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kolodezrus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b76751de6dbc61b47c3068629ee70cb9/34440943599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+scrambler+technique+free+pdf+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_off0000d73c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD73C 17760 bytes
SHA-256: 10cf3a57d64f3f7b7c2d713d249393e622ae9c31f2bd2c68c1b219e9f22d85c2
font_01_sfnt_off00010514.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10514 11320 bytes
SHA-256: e626bf2bd8796cdeb424d464685e0462ecd193f5b649428d37eca621b777f980
font_02_sfnt_off00011f25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1