Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b924a028dadc763a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 12:25:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7d23f85f362cf1792c369a6e1e633a09 SHA-1: 06ece547c2abcb01fbc6980a4866b2660b71fe10 SHA-256: b924a028dadc763a37b66d672a4e5c456f8bc0633aeb74afe5d27a65d52d684e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the attack pattern of luring users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=video+cut+editor+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • http://www.absolutecateringla.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b74243894a---19040639928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416d901ee6b---558732376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satyavnetworks.com/fck_upload_images/file/5509793020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aazeoc7d.xn--p1ai/images/shared/file/xamixutisepefubojebawesew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hk-delight.com/UploadFiles/file/levuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baruipur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lovuvanibeniko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614180079bfd3---90835452399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgxzz.com/uploadfile/file/27768788462.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquamedicasatumare.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fisuwaginetudolenumabuzir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/50030925846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80adpfaaeictf0c6c7i.xn--p1ai/public/file/guxafanufabukefubeki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/grt6o2u97h24ctfeoefl1keqf51rpqbc/xidezeseketisoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/kufovotazefavisov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d98c31c0e39dfa457bd628e99da2e452/20297068478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eu86ebb4d67t8arkstm6i5old7/mimudosagasuludezejobije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141101b58eb0---61422763000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jazykovytabor.topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/64227791077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garankuccu.com/upload/fckimagesfile/8d0e4a7784c97c7915dc271a0f798a5c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tpdw.pl/userfiles/file/setalokegojaneral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocminhcnc.com/demo_thietbimay_24_7/upload/files/53024872739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b966a6fd6e5e17df9cdcf0424bb2fef/24633654222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wmc21.com/ckupload/files/guxudejixikedugukinesu.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_off0000de92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE92 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6A9 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 839844ee16d8f1cdd00c83cfe2e93b5432ab50af9b87b1c2828adad2f9760689
font_02_sfnt_off00010d9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D9D 18116 bytes
SHA-256: 1bacff9003886db79c1531429af6c78bf42091c3a79c117a000302810ef45d32