Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db2e63ea3d2519d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-08-19 13:36:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8896941f8b55931bcaf8c4a3c280343e SHA-1: b4ba3bcd2141b0e43f29efff39d044e9e514a1ff SHA-256: db2e63ea3d2519d20fd0527b0dcd693f10538fa75baa1d6420a18c5247319dfd
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of multiple links pointing to potentially compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, combined with a heuristic flagging a visual download button, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature, likely as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://www.jacenter.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fakapasubamubarazapo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hssanesteban.cl/files/wowusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c0e939f829---59177061580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94a4b58c68---49541790819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promador.pl/userfiles/file/selopelijesetarame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/14911131273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushi-belovo.ru/files/xudozudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fangjin.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/powerifozebedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andrejc.si/files/file/dudominudixukoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc154857ad91e651ff664d30ad67c967/dijipavuwov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maharajganjtimes.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/7831737955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpagesl.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f78efc88d3a---vepigedetatutuxexote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b76903bbec40e37cd1d485af8a098add/93360576001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmi.lu/userfiles/files/64681136800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premsaktidal.in/userfiles/file/jejeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahs1966.net/clients/f/f9/f93f52488d971b5f2372adc2bdb16541/File/86340994259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///95470989063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tripleccompanies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e85a9d625f8937b199866cdbeb7d284f/xazuziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bfd453ed86---fadoxisozeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nceptionsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/444222a5c034d6bf36f16fa1b4992bd9/jogifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72247015614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbbbizu2bxaod.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/vutipirinozifomupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sloplast.com/userfiles/files/moxisuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiaciran.org/cache/fck_files/file/20487371670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5c0c19ab24f3a2f4257082b331e97623/37886728571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=internet+download+manager+full+yapma+crackPDF 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_off0000db93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A5 17304 bytes
SHA-256: 4bc542fc76c60dfc4bb412a8788431da277f5459bb36e5c700ba4a755b1e8ea0
font_02_sfnt_off000120d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D7 11048 bytes
SHA-256: b9d45e1cc88863da759e867485dabee21ebb1ccb35858e93e2073a2b50020f7f