Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1205a160c386363…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 23:50:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a1f84458ac738c6ba25eb2fca366b872 SHA-1: a23df9d6cb3eb6ed590d0cb949f3e1e124aa2ca6 SHA-256: b1205a160c386363a64be63663c229caf8c707ef910989b46499d3aa7ccbf31a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, indicated by the presence of a download button and numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload. The document's structure and embedded links are designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614790b1c0e08---42964725896.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mateuszkucharski.pl/admin/file/weviluvosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panegovernance.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/file/1715600029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsfinancialconsulting.com/userfiles/file/8494082317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergo-logo-bamberg.de/userfiles/file/74442912528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/dezepewunujixevurubatumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grnca.org/img/files/files/45615414645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d8aeeaa07f---2109585080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/jufazoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elsecretodelolivo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132323c7395f---90667240855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmmvn.net/userfiles/files/78207200427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://image.dlib.vn/libedu/news/bvu/20210917/file/gijaxagogosugakugub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132959cbee63---kikapamazixebomegebitefel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thriftstorewebsites.com/flash/thriftstorewebsites.com/file/17781570408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michelschuurmans.nl/images/uploads/file/buwirumudilutoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estoniapools.com/contents/files/63518816030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnispgroup.com/filespath/files/20210919102600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimmerei-possert.at/71103015079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/radajajopugisefisesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikaramen.com/uploads/files/32464379485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gvhanq5foj2hagufo9rsabee91/dalevojonema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9d89436d92c901e0a65506624264d26/rijipezoziwokururakobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.com/contents/files/78347058902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://21cedu.com/pds/userfiles/files/dolutopesezape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=ppsspp+games+download+god+of+warPDF 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_off0000e2a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2A9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fabb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFABB 18012 bytes
SHA-256: 703b66786f3a244f8c0ecc9ceedd06543e6e3683e5210e0464267cc84c390e26
font_02_sfnt_off0001297d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1297D 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 334290b381ec777956a07fac17ad46bb78dfe7ae10e758d0014841f33937ae22