Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c804eab351d76d76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-07-06 15:23:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: c8885d9868a69bf87b6ad22ea977860d SHA-1: e360b4ce3b623712559b8ccefea9b61077c4e135 SHA-256: c804eab351d76d76e0dff132cfcb2edb252d28710d717375bdb759d2b6b4de87
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised websites, likely to facilitate further infection or phishing. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics confirms this behavior.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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.escon.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95048dc7202f7b083992f9b1de498a7f/3439615993.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/fugemufebifetasudevosoxaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faef0f8e45b5d4f67188b5d8c05f15af/senil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonkertrail.org/clients/9/92/9260a3c387aed4615f72c72c3a1da295/File/womurojafixiwipatapekumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af93e633d7---vasevab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipavtoufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/295a6125ef6bfafd68099728ac82c2ee/84149418117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pankalconstructora.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4adf5f947---nidakilujevasitovevewure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honda-vo.com/upload/file/verabosopog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/252a4f9c5fa1e3b0a50efdc8d1c6094a/87184673501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatamorgana.fr/uploads/assets/file/vibiwedewadulupevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irina-beha.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60828452165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mlkjjtmvdgrq2je66afmr4lp2s/kibegipuwozibuwudorug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d0f24af54f---59111866050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sntaviator.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16993634061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9144d4b0720448ecc486c63642481c5e/36256671353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musikpark-live.de/userfiles/file/fulesanad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benetalent.com/upload/files/senodugifuloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmt-tw.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/97439521865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strategie-online.net/catalogue_dynamique/file/nupukobusakawase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlnsk.ru/uploads/file/feraxodavezaxadajojapute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160882dce403c9---balosolenapunenusipona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nhpr1mqes75v42matkv3r3vmom/53704590057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klasykarozrywki.pl/public/images/fck/file/88806841779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=isat+question+papers+pdfPDF 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_off0000e4c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4C0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCD7 10644 bytes
SHA-256: 9332c05857b6800f47d43a97efa0aaabc815292e023f353fabab378dc7b4c8f9
font_02_sfnt_off00011516.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11516 17476 bytes
SHA-256: d73077af0f4e59b0fecab73139b79ec71c213e322b59f81746f10cbf5eb75555