Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c807408b91ebe884…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-06-10 23:25:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 056722f8d865e72b7e7ea11c8afac29f SHA-1: 7b1e93927587ab15872872ca41071d4719209547 SHA-256: c807408b91ebe8845087343431b9f95f10f129d9fdb1d67723b3eec4e81f6ccf
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it is a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, consistent with phishing lures. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document's content, though partially obfuscated, includes phrases related to file conversion and download actions, reinforcing the phishing pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=change+a4+pdf+to+a5 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/subikudakakesobujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/63453028149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfus.net/virgsurv/userfiles/file/60044534078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwflower.com/upimagesfile/%5C/31919862246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecda8590c9---xufitevubog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.corridar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ru3cfr7l72qjh84h51atvsdedi/xevebozebejagedogavetij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a32d5731bb9---kijizizududosiveluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents//files/finawixipilolakofipamuvud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00c02dbc075622a88fec9aaa6a9045b8/werusilawazesetosunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--64-mlcufjjaii0l.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30ce93cd25e3b25828f578afb178489e/21696001458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrtaspol.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jukenikogovijunivemateku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacproblemleri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b360b50e52d---22482253057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cittadelmiele.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fde5864293cc9d82b81c09391bbc218/vivuwozoreweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607951c112ac6---bogolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/44816333388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9f5a1b7bdf7b91479c6a14e70ce2184/lamobasipelikukojimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80f2694ef5a50a68188f0963c7cd579a/xilifivivewepaxaziwuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4eccc06dd---rolixadalonupodorobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010add.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ADD 5112 bytes
SHA-256: 7a2fa1f24596aaacd33209a9d9bf813cdcdac3fdab3d55bb09eb8470de640028
font_01_sfnt_off00011c4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C4E 10500 bytes
SHA-256: dce05d10217b3936cb3cc2f63fdab14af328ee4317458373d4b52b482b808779