Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d00b35c815f371b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:04:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 2fb35fa50ee7d75e914fd1cc19d91ebb SHA-1: 544e3b73d74e41651f5b4cbeb5a17bc545b49962 SHA-256: d00b35c815f371b6225590fb5733cf9333ab8fbc84c09171b1b70c21fce36419
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+ringtone+for+samsung+j5 PDF link annotation
    • https://bisleriuber.genefied.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vabijenup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domexpo.ru/up/file/10064910463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.festivalmarrakech.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ce1486eb20---9516792392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hijaulumut.com/contents/files/wilur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gastriklandsbf.se/UserFiles/files/titikuwizasak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142f670202b8---xifaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karapinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/34021973564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wepamedifubepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://htwy.com/upload/file/73847796277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minjar.mebel18.com/uploads/files/87853123878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/phdb564sqbvqoqq3o6f1ul33r2/kodafebufuludadan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zniczekowalczyk.com/user_images/file/kijufejixemujiwek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investkwik.com/userfiles/file/90498432552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://textingrights.com/userfiles/files/lasewegiduwimexidofupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/943a214180023779a76c949ef13f38c3/62155039735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhilegia.com/upload/files/xafukofuvumepewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://workontext.ru/media/file/dobebiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisefarmersmith.com/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dosawesonowuxibuxap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youxsoft.com/uploads/files/zefolumibopufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobilpetrol.olajpark.hu/files/files/30485796611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://entryexpress.online/chapter_images/files/72952614824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eletmodguru.hu/files/files/4268213891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/dawamulamumeval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chronocertif.com/userfiles/file/309716285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdmsrl.it/userfiles/files/rixemixoko.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_off0000d82f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD82F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f046.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF046 11148 bytes
SHA-256: ab58e9f5b6f0bcc96a82a2acf18979e8d342e780c9be2710500de1056673db0b
font_02_sfnt_off00010a29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A29 18108 bytes
SHA-256: 98a41caf44a4482efe6a315cf9953a38f040a4ed433ce454a84d2c7d289fca25