Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0466ff6623ce78f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-16 20:50:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 45dc0f8861da03ef7e2f79b9f4c0fb20 SHA-1: 14dc6842d40b0d2a70d4b6e5be736d918c94c4d5 SHA-256: b0466ff6623ce78ff5fba6f4b04c674389ab39c7a657fe5d2809eb51efd7f49e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, and one URL explicitly mentions downloading Adobe Flash Player, a common lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+adobe+flash+player+for+android+tablet PDF link annotation
    • http://primethailand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71831135069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uelzecht.lu/userfiles/files/96712465413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uyaviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130df8a64172---besedifajogokalapejizixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/kupafugelodusokiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturhalles.fr/fckeditor/userfiles/file/tutesezebebubop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuchina.org/userfiles/file/32819947144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etadelloro.it/images/file/tagakivetifene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613251e102108---pulukemixogutekoxizopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://distant-property.ru/fck_editor_files/files/zogawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautyyaurient.com/editor_upload/file/bibefokozixalobaxoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://univerosg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54265337361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/20b158adb679417169cbd99d08ee5b90/10409739083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141fc0559590---72252523781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tylbm.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/60306694464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gainliving.com/upload/editor/file/32879851713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianschoch.ch/userfiles/file/61262809445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zoliduvuwigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mislenyiallatorvos.hu/userfiles/file/42151284442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bifafadasikevoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161396bc3a895c---53906129352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4147e7af22048ce0148db60756d9ea5b/97886123172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000dcfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCFE 10936 bytes
SHA-256: ef8c13bf4d8b1928dc0c3c75f273f517b44ec57c3830f962315033a017c739dc
font_01_sfnt_off0000f61e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF61E 18596 bytes
SHA-256: 7c74a2925033fd83df272008265ab3174c27f3dfd6ed46882a6306943286ff8c
font_02_sfnt_off00012583.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12583 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1