Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cea9f51140cfdfb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-09-20 14:01:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fbb51d93007fb721a04a70b54c1496d8 SHA-1: 3e99f1c61fb9b9238df64816f5ad900065ea3a52 SHA-256: cea9f51140cfdfb1f96e2ab467ef97aaa055990d755f7b78269db7e236a0baba
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some hosted on compromised or disposable domains, likely to facilitate the download of a second-stage payload. The presence of a visual download button further supports a social engineering lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9901

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=anime+paint+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://rlangkhan.com/upload/userfiles/files/82021620911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://repare-ton-smartphone.com/userfiles/file/95473463849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68f52d59d1f7c773a0822b30075ff0ad/duxanudibisidonifas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc-am.com.br/Selecao/ckfinder/files/piwapat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/24158870529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210906104617129583630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jecoexports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tufivefafujolaliki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/zolatibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kowirewopujil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubesquilacoma.com/uploads/files/filoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuwupararoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elskenecologie.nl/files/20506337039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilymillerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/69465381796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://litho-and-co.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/90611840288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/gijavumavidaratilunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehlibeytalimleri.com/resimler/files/58856222745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rusepress.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/gelopixexegoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d1a4d754f79205e6f230addcd26b374/femomopumefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallorcaboom.com/res/wysiwyg/file/laruruxufugomiribiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpp300.fr/userfiles/file/dopugoropevaregusudedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theloanwala.com/userfiles/file/37817114667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202109/file/1631152949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613335645bf02---xuxurafirenewuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161365f7856665---fusisetoguletawesubuseg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skontrolsengineering.com/file_media/file_image/file/57082402052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1355868860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wooshin.kr/uploaded/file/153603360861357d74042fe.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_off0000c5c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5C0 17008 bytes
SHA-256: 6011d64c5950e5ad44d95d1f3849acdd392cfea65bfb0ef0bba47c199d5da07e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010a16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A16 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 8ede75f465743abe17916c649ed1633a73e3ae7bdc9ecc5ea4572edec6bf889e