Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7e20565c62e1bd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-07-18 17:58:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 7ecf2393efe884b1f606cfc47af2edf7 SHA-1: 6e150a734175b567206b853a8c005fabbb9410b6 SHA-256: d7e20565c62e1bd352ffc9e4dca6132ba45e6e12541d2a7bee3a03c5aaf72d25
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 a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, 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 0.9956

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 http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/43264749864.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://brandonsmilesdentistry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ohr3uvh7jjsi5osk1op4omb66/silojajupiredisudoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspiredindianfoundation.org/uploads/60079888908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/18370377012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ks-zahnarztpraxis.de/upload/files/48499513000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/83542970544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e7b65a50ae3---89868758316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avondale61.com/clients/e/e2/e25739fb73bf6f2fbed92e75d980d6c5/File/75268689335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hufiles/dalufusifovatagomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/88951971336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teknis.it/userfiles/files/subukim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seventyfirstclassof69.com/clients/60772/File/bipifozigeteli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2u1h3ck47nv5v1cs5ear9r5pt5/jemumitokuroxonare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5c121f4b445c9cc4735c867f8afcad5/99788564430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/11904218244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/pomexejemurubuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvuhangngay.vn/uploads/image/files/vosux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atlantichomeportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a10affde927---927806855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/34068243704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2ed48bf80---lusomewamofizufuxinevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vegasoft.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739a3560cf9---xoxisefikokixiwokolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e36c5d0ad66fef67ce213e48d3f2ae21/berizefifukenas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technische-dokumentation-hoffmann.com/upload/files/fuxabilelobebijewumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=intersection+of+two+circlesPDF 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_off0000ebf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBF5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010407.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10407 16572 bytes
SHA-256: eeb9e60ab832ec4609baf096aa3c6ab092dc1e538d9d133990d85c6387198a9a
font_02_sfnt_off00012f10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F10 10204 bytes
SHA-256: e239cf9230c34016aaf8a3e41a40df33c59c2d2c70d1c0a07bb32ff533a0e456