Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de292e01a8a9b50f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-06-12 11:14:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0ccfd9888f0ad01c4e4f285ce2be7bcd SHA-1: c19a1b5c6f2c103011c670147ffdf335ef48f450 SHA-256: de292e01a8a9b50ff4741f97d867daa6c707f2f1d5e586821615c92be6b18976
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous embedded links pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, combined with a visual download button lure, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also indicated a high probability of maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=electronic+configuration+for+30+elements
    • https://apparel.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79aea2c365b83d805e6fbcc87671afe3/93334208807.pdf
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b23e62c58ff---sesotem.pdf
    • https://daluxerealty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i7ip765mu4131ten9ju7gp0l96/6782876475.pdf
    • https://www.fifatravels.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c3982ed18f---2212898717.pdf
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45ed2fcbccba3591302766e2ee5f920e/59076987809.pdf
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06eca243a25745a155552fff5a83437b/45918098926.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a075edeedf9---72036349342.pdf
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607555bca6942---78415417173.pdf
    • https://glowskincare.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb0a6b88e678abcb466538a823a47782/xugenusujidigidexese.pdf
    • http://kinel-hunter.ru/upfiles/file/jedet.pdf
    • http://es-umzuege-transporte.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8a534576fdd8d78b4873a4966ac1add0/felozanilafoviriruk.pdf
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a46ced401---3326944945.pdf
    • http://dobrasekacka.cz/userfiles/file/zatidumuvogirakade.pdf
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082aadc39545---54487881874.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef01.bin
82fb0cba287b00a6ca684ffa4549b54bfd962645a11900418489867ca977e24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF01 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010187.bin
614ba8539bae15e374b89677d6d7981a7388eee5997a1df0cc8ac35cac29c6e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10187 11064 bytes