Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d492f5d0b89c645f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 18:48:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: e3a6161fe1d291cfe391a7916515897c SHA-1: f22919a95f67f40d1720e17274fe3d9efef639ac SHA-256: d492f5d0b89c645f03f4b063194015c138710bae62fe3a935c5efbeaec83d07b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as a malicious PDF phishing trojan by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malware. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://onutglen.com/caningest/images/file/44539026172.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tuvanluatdanang.com/upload/ck/files/zixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f56f4ed2aa---xowugemodazifolepobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/iu5r8arpeum6ldho9of4gsq4o0/lijikemekotofutepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcdanielz.eu/files/file/95980862705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tedesco.pl/userfiles/file/14099551873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jensbrode.de/files/file/zuzafufanedinad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353513c03fc---92264737682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mirrorlink.com/public/files/files/zizemomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://energiadirect.pl/application/resources/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56994992326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nadiadsa.org/userfiles/file/73955808579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroi-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/vulafagipizuvedur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omnoiptv.com/outscapes/admin/ckeditor/uploads/ck/files/82631011002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140eec54a592---57075671197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140455faa613---dumokolizenarirapivumopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deconkhoemanh.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u8477imt8ge9ekt0f0o6crbka2/76195259999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unitec-egypt.net/userfiles/file/22299159446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhuaduongnhapkhauaz.info/upload/files/fadabuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalbafitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/27185294847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/11058785064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.korayozelguvenlik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c6ef09c6b3---valune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unipell.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b9a0569451---lefot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oykufestivali.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kiboxogafoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abhinavabhishad.org/userfiles/file/demipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=asphalt+xtreme+hackPDF 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_off0000dbcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBCF 20096 bytes
SHA-256: cf7fd37bdc362ea3b2f0dcefc8b5ed9b41bdc9906cc54517031a37dc5d82cc81
font_01_sfnt_off00010ffc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FFC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012813.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12813 10496 bytes
SHA-256: 8c8afe1817499d3f1de5bf46c0313044c947c468efeb8def573d4d3ca8043cea