Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6e41704ddfff46b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-24 08:32:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a5363ab6839099845c8b70b904bb78f0 SHA-1: eb258632eb4fdf4ea541435d71239265d067d5a1 SHA-256: d6e41704ddfff46b6585d334c0300e63f95783e2e9e3501eeb19c8e2b4b4f452
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of external URI links and a link farm pointing to potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic further supports the idea of a deceptive lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+bootloader+unlock+tool PDF link annotation
    • http://daechienglishpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6119856364.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161430b303faf4---65008768890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://123podkrovie.sk/editor_uploads/files/bewavobobovijokukamiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zlhk.ru/upload_picture/file/dixovuvapiwituramopikegak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koryosushi.com/uploads/files/51280590350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/83084002849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voszveszprem.hu/_user/file/26841464117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spbmedaks.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/74983532699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mekongtransport.com/upload/userfiles/files/pizijijuduvisixuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolegalebisantis.it/userfiles/files/sosovasozoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuresi-kaitori.com/upload/content_pic/files/filesogavijisamoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cobmedia.hu/include/42188538643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0965818789.com/CKEdit/upload/files/83452270521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23750545641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safeabortionnepal.com/userfiles/file/95606112252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderkiwicafe.com/uploads/files/34519067819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/folefopijagireromafufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le383.com/uploads/files/zedunemusafuxaforevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/21630660960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210907_230547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/37417579722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovehikari.com/uploads/files/zoporedigoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dijitalsanat.link/upload/files/bafeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dh-cell.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nureb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zazilha.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b95dd9cf5adacf5183c49d89b4960556/97936563303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lisacutler.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f0de9d5a01---fefunumavixugumefuk.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_off0000daa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA5 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 05a8b44dc0ef486517ecebff8858d1b05d8349a58f1880d2470ca12c0065109f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AC 17324 bytes
SHA-256: c702c899bfb753b37da212616e4625908649e478dae28e5eced31aa1ac20a513
font_02_sfnt_off00011f68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F68 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1