Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2358cd786185912…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-06-11 13:21:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 68957d763d870658fe7e415d76d21a93 SHA-1: 43aabc8a5e7cbd2b5dc6986a761d35f91c6bc06a SHA-256: d2358cd786185912a711f3ef2b8738a3fd616fe5a8ea254f7831bfcbe173744a
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent, likely to trick users into downloading a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pubg+skin+hack+file PDF link annotation
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160734e38480ba---84558532924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siyata.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160767e87711fa---zojixij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wonunurugikepatuvirapak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608342042e45e---44367698064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bellevuecommunityfoodbank.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d4a9f403c0cde33dae1d02e2cf382f46/44277111585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/83216612296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e7ab0d26151a7772d560574ee54c534/kitapujafejiwerikaziji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64742e3a40---rukilafalateze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dacba8dbf6244756e91b1ff21ee7966a/14754858855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehblending.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b0fd7ef7a3acd9ef5399a59e2354eb4/kebabosafudakeminaseva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094b1e110509---nutetidaxizaduxoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofuyatogo.com/uploads/files/wirisivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://renovator.cz/files/file/80047074750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benjamindreyer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/118f13c2a1106f69a96a68e6191effdb/23757354728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42e500923bfc23c346e8d08966af4e99/23941085929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bocamvigliesrooms.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68226357f37f64b0fabcb799bf4e34cd/63397793811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c277050ea6d---lovoparipavizuzobagupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f0d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0D1 5252 bytes
SHA-256: 2540736e41c2cf2cde80d181441e62ac960abb356c2d7ab0beb1363028ec46f8
font_01_sfnt_off000102b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102B9 3176 bytes
SHA-256: f6df0f5cc9f54c0a0a5e7ce1d85e273b4b3f2d9233a54eb26ea9dbf8def5edf4
font_02_sfnt_off00010f8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F8D 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 54c6dc12257ad7f0933169d7d86f36deea7756aaa045e24fae5d8ec60c7f4571
font_03_sfnt_off000135f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135F5 16312 bytes
SHA-256: b2563e85233037e3c2780690ed1455257f868516b5a962e54e6ffe29314c9cb1