Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d64d759a16243325…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 18:05:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7b2720c6aea3f80fb6a5b0fc8dfd32b1 SHA-1: 2048e99a26f579fdc9ff5f6c9f613eefa23fa3ea SHA-256: d64d759a1624332531283b4ba8f4071f47f217929589e67f8a14c491e1f856cf
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it contains a link farm and a lure to install a browser extension or update, a common social-engineering tactic. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and malicious URL patterns suggest it is designed to exploit users into downloading a second-stage payload, likely through a compromised CMS upload link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://sunnyvale.com/wysiwygfiles/file/kiterevuzegazovuse.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d3a63f87b5e71919ea3739a079dd903/dutulugeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwhopewell.com/uploads/files/salikudixamejataxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srutimusic.org/userfiles/file/91494630734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dc0aca66737---96787796725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zywawiara.pl/pliki/roxilejifok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tejiwumowiwumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securitydirect.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ed101ee3c3edd348d98a69c8fbdfa48/36130183885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb50dcc1ded---84380993322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lemanssrl.it/file/modadasoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muacash.com/webroot/img/files/96020819638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/turavovejekas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soechi.net/userfiles/file/17896315729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ytovietnam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49139040089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/33b49f97106ac53d9436c03ec2374217/925117693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sq88vbted3a48icrk08tm8okog/najenedituxevafelig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bbd7df3aef493d2c5da67621f35e73c/64550009769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcserviszlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41250144477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161000d732e2e1---95072098615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moveisgarciadigital.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9246e43a6---virobavez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/036cbaf905dadfb308af6bc14f63bc1b/taxavudosuratifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6qlfi5unj5nh70p4aoit0lrt9/pimeguse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nestaerospace.com/uploads/file/pokufufimuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/kevemexogavem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuli-china.ru/d/files/29957738731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelescare.com/userfiles/file/nojukukazipevesin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=transformar+de+pdf+para+jpg+ilovePDF 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_off0000cdce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDCE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e5e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E0 17680 bytes
SHA-256: 42d77e73ecfe5a1ab7c2186185c93136b1270b3e3a1c15b42eb3e7635b96c196
font_02_sfnt_off000113ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113EF 10904 bytes
SHA-256: fec7b63d8694212d33a54ae3cfc61e8c79831d95b695d6ab0890a3ff47bb44cf