Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcd12727664260e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-09-03 18:51:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 8b7ac54ffac9097f20944d6dae09410c SHA-1: 45f03c56272de2952117b7f9d9bd1902211f573a SHA-256: dcd12727664260e38ea20e74f496cd841be9fcbe9371d1ba008606552b9fc698
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. The heuristics indicate it contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.annaleehuber.com/content_files/file/86390841112.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://oumkua.com/userfiles/file/87659142404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/nenavenekexuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160a9fc2e3fa1f---87865077633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krcatikyonetimi.com/userfiles/file/nifudagowijiwesaxiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acm-medicali.it/userfiles/files/57272855965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2kat.ru/userfiles/file/22867076091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flightshop.jp/images/blog//file/14709399788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baodieptailor.com/uploads/2021-07-21/images/files/60787959051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pu3vm169qhmpb366p7i092spv1/lemiwakufowolekonotune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202106090448328034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160778ca60c52f---toral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firsatpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/57714581977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ne-moloko.ee/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62d08bc9f0d33c73d7e43160fe50e409/96950213488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elitagida.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ru9g2k6anj9lsd22qq6t2tgkp3/patazonefaxuresefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenteriyaki.com/uploads/files/simedenofegesekuvisin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africansafaris-spain.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/connector.php?Command=FileUpload&Type=File&CurrentFolder=%2Ffile/24256197520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/japusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d51e25ba1161b86a1d6c2c809436c868/pojisifakunubodigawenuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.detskaoptika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sudorovusukusupepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danguykhoidoanhnghiephp.vn/Upload/files/89411912237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--aknmedcal-wpbe.com/uploads/file/64542504681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607774fbafe9b---jozovibusuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jemelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c7972638b7---sigomivisotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=miter+saw+station+plans+free+pdfPDF link annotation
    • https://www.thc.gda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lefakixoxavijoli.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_off0000ea29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA29 18880 bytes
SHA-256: 7521c1073ebbd22804c4b91499c44ebdeb51bdec47075f1cfb16dce31cc4bcd0
font_01_sfnt_off00011a25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A25 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001323c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1323C 10572 bytes
SHA-256: fd2453f579361b700d8bc1fd08be5cf622457586cca1f67d6c86133e6fbe7c1b