Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db4a6e26c849d5e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:23:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-04
MD5: 6f4fe63bf4894f841064436c95117b9f SHA-1: dafb6849809c8d7fd045bd423b8d09ed3a3cd8c7 SHA-256: db4a6e26c849d5e9c0d241c89dd2181ac0086f378e7084c764a0f5b3534da3e0
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 8

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=connectives+english+exercises+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://futureinfashion.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xanowavimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cb212958aca---52485745257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b65uusag1u8d0hu59s5dpgf831/22749060809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mannoorpally.com/uploads/file/garumewutefovapum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tratedu.net/ssss2018/assets/143ad273/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/userfiles/files/eaf49dcf6cef40822f9c4886bd673d23.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/99754d5530acb91bd8e7426de46ed1f9/58677096502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/zedijumegofujefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8592e738aaedeecd2cdc9308d72438c1/laxixuvabibawafivavozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b1b9d39eef---9048106848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160859d551bb67---96316851403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beccaro.it/userfiles/files/tevojitilumom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajmason.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10637797160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfd7fc5ee24---xobomazaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/63679431297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609053c557a81---golewizasoxipobefat.pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bacc0eb2047642e9a4bb061079e499d/67483371992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasicimosnov.cz/foto/Image/file/68395836951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.accidentinjuryalbuquerque.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8l027bljuk9irud1i6g8qoq2cu/zazepetegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/sufamebav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160986643d4c0e---pagujusigaregumujabisufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desushibar.com/userfiles/file/92311922446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/014a822eb9a4166f86d810baf4ae2b65/kixofegemulodikeb.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_off0000ecd9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECD9 19224 bytes
SHA-256: 08be84ad4e9c3eaae4bf202b7d17279ffeaf59fac78dfa090bf502b964707e74
font_01_sfnt_off00011ea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EA3 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 4b8b74d20796e1b6a93e5da29d0564c39fdfd08f8b066172cc926e0baf075145
font_02_sfnt_off000137c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1