Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d665a378e8c9792a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-05 10:23:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 470efea7480207bbdb6ed5887afa4ee1 SHA-1: 0e5a696b09809ac60637bb2976a937d2b083e680 SHA-256: d665a378e8c9792ac3b3f73445f989346bbc369beeed111809fdd48508dde9ad
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. It contains numerous links to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a visual download button lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=excel+vba+find+multiple+worksheets PDF link annotation
    • https://notofthisgalaxy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7gdmhqkg1g0eokno19n0qbodf/31282260168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dfd5993396---56383713817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-f-l.de/user_img/file/60535494762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764ce852afc---36036002625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160990121510e6---76070539918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blugarden.eu/file/2859020129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/06/17/bavazek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatfailogistics.com/fckeditor/files/file/40880304511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdblue.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jubedofitujoforipagafub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eziblank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5517c019972523e420ddd6c5717a0073/sumekopipafoxifozisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songiadabinhphuoc.com/upload/ck/files/48565488387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tajesink.com/Uploadfiles/files/67516218558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/ribozila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.surajinformatics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48aba796261aaaf7d55a46ad249a62af/tevojozapalizajetutowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heizler.hu/files/file/napobamujopafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ludifrance.fr/userfiles/file/57359484263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mofrantech.com/userfiles/file/xufatesupowegefal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehero88vip.com/ckfinder/images_store/files/93239576831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.buildingmalawi.com/images/uploaded/documents/gizonegawevazerukapijib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://middlegeorgiacoinclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e8e8c02ca5---96314382797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d14450d789---58121756050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b567a704027dc84c974ecd63f39f102/sasopasorejeseradunejoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscard.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608219e037eb0---mirodunamuvavizofitofupo.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_off0000c133.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC133 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d94a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD94A 11456 bytes
SHA-256: afd26adfa0954780ed0b5b6f0c2cf778d17187e7110437f66aaf79c6ceac4fc8
font_02_sfnt_off0000f404.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF404 17184 bytes
SHA-256: 6dbbfa96377042becbb28aa67bcbd5eb62613e6ff12c77f75dcb4ce4b6ce9c46