Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 defbd0562dafc7e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:44:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: f32032e1895762c553739e4de648e439 SHA-1: 95cbfeb0f50cc7062700a7af5ab86b8c2485c492 SHA-256: defbd0562dafc7e0144407d6cda31ada0d6fdbcb045d2f42a02be20042e4930b
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites, indicating a link farm designed to host or distribute malicious files. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and URL findings point to a malicious workflow.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78477189697.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kede.org/userfiles/file/34499367514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614156f100a43---juzezobaxodezitamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lsv-wittlage.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taruxixizabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/3340072000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://melz-feu.ru/upload/vasutukivozufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atx-stroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6587b179634971abfa292f9ae40b59f/51851153229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qamarapps.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427f2bc9db8---60220819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salondumariagededijon.com/userfiles/file/xutusope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.perchegouet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lobowomosoborugotexat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladachess.ru/userfiles/file/55635736189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tazexadanepul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innovatepc.com/userfiles/file/7161730628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haysalon.com/public_html/userfiles/file/59208080662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c499e780b558f289ad620b1fd962348/97293189440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90ec3f5760c918cd25374e5bf4b2d20b/97792076043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapakunited.com/contents/files/faxokazabugoluwoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/nibavujozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mottaing.eu/userfiles/files/bexaxizulavid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k2gacngdd90agb6h0gg3fgq0f5/noxujedofevagixepikesut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://childprotectionindia.com/lexcyberia/userfiles/files/begujenaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodykneadstherapy.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duwevikematumovivod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maketmaster.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zulixavejidaxema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+export+contact+androidPDF 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_off0000db78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f38a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF38A 18268 bytes
SHA-256: c11e7103a3f86911b678a99573dfb5af4b91ae1f938203a2edc0c660a95a7272
font_02_sfnt_off00012263.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12263 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 264e27fc0193cf9cdac53848e95c9eddcf1c9142d15a6ef7694521a034f4af61