Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d449d16cedd877b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 16:16:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 58eeb77df8b562cbac4d2959fbc890ad SHA-1: 600325917fedbb1323143261816ba6d55e6ceb7e SHA-256: d449d16cedd877b22d1a9d79705a6f0ded745d5d53c9ce108433916cc76a31ba
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on various domains, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a lure to download a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rearrange+pages+in+pdf+free+online PDF link annotation
    • http://festacreativita.org/userfiles/file/27350204835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danieldesignpro.com/userfiles/42021172205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gowiwadugopebiforuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroi-sistema.ru/img/bemexovizeduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sciencevier.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b478ee8275e---guvozadot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/koxofejem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6b8866c99---tubuponokasejuvoturufifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mosallaesf.ir/uploads/ck/files/sinatavatilegax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skup-laptopow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ef7a67208e---21995863664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6f1ffa4a13---kegab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dragulf.no/files/file/21370060862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edh5pg4i2avg7vr0d6vuq4ue31/98554484700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1960whs.com/clients/7/73/73384dfd0d582a2861cf356c55c3c578/File/90772614494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/34034998939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/49532072878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uarngovo94t3s9ih3i3b74k1q3/36466697994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lynnesnaturaltreats.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d17a0337cf0d364c4579680805f3a46/malovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://styliststudios.com/imagesTE/file/lilemutalupanetinawab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097fb3ce4e3b---begezivesage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079e3909942b---bazuviwexirorokivoleloxax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0taogiphm8fi4ot55pi0p1tlb1/49353710899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/97553774087.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_off0000d58d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD58D 10620 bytes
SHA-256: 5dbb9e007f25f234bf7bc4af4efa7c67c4881677c3474c5954209f3e11d542f4
font_01_sfnt_off0000eda5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA5 17168 bytes
SHA-256: dfe75129955a8b63f0fb20fe8564f8ff22acb6ad7c87672aee1402640b40ccae
font_02_sfnt_off00011a10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1