Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc778d11f1f71e90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-08-31 09:58:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 535216d8fedef45f63eb49cbaf64e049 SHA-1: fa83231551b63616939c3261291a902658ac4880 SHA-256: dc778d11f1f71e9024163f1f1a65e1973a9b8bb1577cf464f5b254e6b1a893e3
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the overall structure and heuristics indicate a malicious intent to trick users into downloading further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/favalamuvujitotuvovom.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078105cad792---9236139548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jakketoes.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nujelogixofixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vp51a42irf8b8vsuujvr24d3j6/dekurunilobite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southportrubbish.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d7f176a346---65007738523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bc7e503bb8---68555628151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a18f0570d2e---vudixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/tutepuvuxibafidulofujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karinbentum.nl/uploads/file/romumin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tucsonhomewindowtint.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c65b979270e01028b223096ba29dbfb7/pefawifekigimofakawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miguktour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210613_EBEC14CF6CE3B3C1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infrabud.eu/fckpliki/file/20769739346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ltgpartners.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c37571e3dbb001b5fde75c5eec7129b/11241321565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synowka.pl/galeria/file/kozupetogoxazebopuninasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/73320095820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemculture.com/userfiles/file/80234505142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092b897cc7de---jugemilewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pieseautocomenzi.ro/userfiles/file/93746229797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bef8cae9e0---xosub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53f0820972f641f09f33a9738a37e8a5/ruderojozadofozanurub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/686edb54bb1e3e5981cc6b2f414ba24d/vefuniwuwugix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+edit+read+only+pdfPDF 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_off0000e095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE095 10516 bytes
SHA-256: b35251f823eb01ea9940112a7817deb205f468baaba5d741e5f1c115b0e338d4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f89c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF89C 19052 bytes
SHA-256: 35b2e17fc2f6c0603486935813009103f84b4f1016412d8351fc0b56a2aa8444
font_02_sfnt_off00012a7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1