Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d166786436bee3f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 22:16:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4a1f249f9c37e0c33bbccac9cd7a8bdb SHA-1: da32f7db5d91b38f7a6a2fc1e40103fc813b43da SHA-256: d166786436bee3f967b745a92388f0ab2a0b5970b0036ef9a79ee07f884cf0f0
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. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various external PDF files hosted on potentially compromised websites. The presence of multiple links to disposable hosting and a 'download button' lure suggests an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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 http://www.santamyoga.be/images/file/rafubenobula.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cmtdental.com/upload/ckimg/files/virulerazizalekigasawod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a061808d3---72166137905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbc2753125241006f2fb53670df761b4/51693096910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pachetedeturism.ro/images/files/30774275017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joshuadacosta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613141bf71399---29393983702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rambud.pl/uploaded/file/kubemip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tourbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_EC4D37009B76FCAE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkimm.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61762428385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/wojipuput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhambra.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/42201169256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ec463cbe7a---pawuzux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hungthanhauto.com/luutru/files/wonumumefijakazugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naosgym.com/userfiles/files/85419208595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieterheich.de/images/uploads/file/nipamif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saltriot.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ecee7ac33a1407691f99d870c3eccb2/rimepeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romovi.net/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/sitimifuvemizefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vucert.vn/uploads/files/rinixatife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://produktybhp.pl/pliki_user/File/wototimukako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://editora-arara-azul.com.br/site/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71018361062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afggdiat7t8ph9rlkqelbj819l/45963088772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://militarynetwork.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137591b831d6---10492974523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelbasantresidency.com/uploads/32607540559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millionsdiscount.com/mo_images/files/robuwesemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nature-revive.org/files/file/tamipoxugifikixivuxenav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=top+frp+bypass+toolPDF 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_off0000cbba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBBA 10240 bytes
SHA-256: 4fb67c3d50951ad250c75448b6f740519026dfbd566c4d83ca0b90f02e7e67f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000e2b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAC5 17576 bytes
SHA-256: 003dac945b18708476594fc9bebe9c850fa73d77c0c8b8d49df02e317e207ea4