Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d83860250fe55fc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:27:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: a13fcd53d0d1f1f1e5a370f044c9c43c SHA-1: 27291a2a07f33d0dfa21d966cc5e6ad7943c5391 SHA-256: d83860250fe55fc1fcc3cb002402286536d76b4e7f3fc354624e50cceb90b62b
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. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+limited+by+a+cells+surface+area+to+volume+ratio PDF link annotation
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612d6e025017e---kejepofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://susta.vn/userfiles/file/zulasidum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cncunse.com/d/files/tivudijipemubabajikefefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolcezzecaffe.it/file/78699196888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160825ba7e3dd2---29936669902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/gavepetuvapukupirenizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://katachizu.com/img/news/files/sasogipuzevurarikosot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://attlas.center/userfiles/file/1465303472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612a64e635c6f---miwosofililizolezade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mptradingcompany.com/userfiles/file/92504190948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikbursa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607491e1152d6---95267332392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luatsubienhoa.com/upload/ck/files/88918491388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alburigiott.it/userfiles/files/mowokufisajepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3q1or558i01lk5a4888etbq2qm/jebalinaviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/dafodulugiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-6/20210506223157396720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kawanmto.net/contents//files/5316532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://at2apigroup3.com/contents//files/jepamamizigepukogirik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beachesbrewing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ecf208f87933f26a59f77e36f237fa7/8171437459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/31006651982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://observatoire-omic.org/documents/file/47372079335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoncmswebsitebeheer.nl/files/editor/file/67183674309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecotranslation.ca/upload/editor/file/88703789522.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_off0000eb01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB01 18248 bytes
SHA-256: c7a6a407708630cbd5b93393e8c3970808c6af479aa8b4143e7dfaae0f6f89f6
font_01_sfnt_off00011ab3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AB3 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 15cc65dfe056a8851521bb6623f36dfa980fd75855cb976409375464ac6f39da
font_02_sfnt_off00013471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13471 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1