Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8f5341ad206b292…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-22 22:34:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 36a090bec19ebf06e2b09b08eb25f9bf SHA-1: d8e85186d99b6001d7b2ea0d9c47f8520c8cc6df SHA-256: c8f5341ad206b292b883227579aee38e4b9671fea55516c0fb5a7146e4df1b46
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is intended to trick users into downloading a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pirate+evolution+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://lsphc.com/userfiles/file///webojamiwonijabavokav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokyoto.pl/UserFiles/file/kabawelirizopoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechloyalty.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/zeruxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/5367779909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rq5r3janjsbi8n6rub6rpgeq57/96924485297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/wipogixapopufutoguga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stotex.rs/files/55616720426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primeodontorj.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce7184d828fc9839c3fe2a547e81ad47/89420141457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ff8b7258f9---37712406065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciba.lv/uploaded/file/luxamaxumajoxoferopuzerel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpreceptor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zetegebawexajozusafew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ct-tci.com/cttax/userfiles/files/sasakevaxolazozova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rakiverenufaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coytex.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69333776658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kartelabasligi.com/images_upload/files/46286654497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/file/44170785865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alusol-kw.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lakuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martas.vodrsport.cz/uploads/files/biseda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1544-7419.net/upload/fckeditor/file/sirebitari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibiucuratenie.ro/fckeditor/userfiles/file/81121499352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/ck_imgs/files/tosekorobidabamufusonab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mjengo.org/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/nuzogojifivamuleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dok-vo.ru/userfiles/file/33494677316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccj.jp/images/uploads/fckeditor/file/70413238826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festival-bg.com/media/ckuploads/files/19137673813.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_off0000d5dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5DC 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 3b17e11dd81132ebabd60b15a3e94c182fda5454a43c8b32d770106a2612893c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED43 18296 bytes
SHA-256: 6742b53c15fd257ad76289691421b047b087a230a1ea5e47215760c6ca2e9364
font_02_sfnt_off00011ce2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1