Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0eca12b40e165db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.8 KB Created: 2021-08-06 23:51:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: fdbd4dcc3deb2a71f2ac69986f001f27 SHA-1: 01919004fa99ceea3fbbf936cd0b4705eb4610ab SHA-256: d0eca12b40e165dba9140b8b831953b06aae0555ff637cb552e943b41be3b083
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

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 http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d04a421976---gedujoninuju.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chia4kids.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wowewanez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.llgnjinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a9d94c8fe21931ca7514b9807da8f6c/tufimapesixenev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/935175d71933486248c17a4ccf0a571a/97420353970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7cc8261fdc---10288095036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://seikai.jp/free_images/files/95934940775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingspec.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9aujc67um4tlvbn4ebrnv67c96/jevakevelogidikis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aligokdemir.com/resimler/files/16621811635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/50940860887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.champcaregivers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d633a2fb23---86008010652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acc095556de---13889371076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddqnr06qbd9tqu8t3io1sc7ua5/17378265319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1f833147ea---94632844540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd340ec4a88---91493810662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2df005e287---1279310927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://transfertrolley.cn/d/files/bufuseput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8ic4dkr6q7957c0p8d7lpmmt2/97658883160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hopkinshigh1988.com/clients/75739/File/fageguxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tensoinox.com/userfiles/files/342123219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chukgoobok.com/files/fckeditor/file/goxojokoxuvepawor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9a0e53db55---60478520929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://physocare.com/Images_upload/files/gizexizumemexovigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unicorn-furnitures.com/d/files/wujupurenezugunakuterubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soflocops.org/clients/83264/File/14370757524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=acronis+true+image+2019+crack+with+serial+keyPDF 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_off0000fa16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA16 17656 bytes
SHA-256: a661563c7d1e294d24a8e070b11111c7c15bbdc215b6a5a4c4e2a4fd90662fa6
font_01_sfnt_off0001283b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1283B 11512 bytes
SHA-256: b7c3874bc8a16b1a4b07a459441a192a34b548bad71cf10ceff0a18db3a247ff
font_02_sfnt_off00014392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14392 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1