Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df1004a04ce18853…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-25 09:05:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 1399271a53a41f87a8707d2415572cca SHA-1: c13f908b8ee21308e3568fba7c7304c1dc352141 SHA-256: df1004a04ce18853ee8fd5c038a0bd59e98f1ec4be1032529363717283d008da
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or appear to be part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt to track user engagement with these lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/86446830887.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nawooelcs.com/upload/userfiles/2021/07/files/210710000118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://narcisse.sk/editor_uploads/files/kumoxazezipomusodulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gbagencement.fr/uploads/file/59513266501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manuscripthandler.com/userfiles/file/20970832982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3cbe0ad0a4---fubudataxawebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidfabrication.com/public_html/userfiles/file/zixanuzirulopanemonata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vosejokawiginabirowulif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/60559465104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmountvernon.com/uploads/files/sufojinelidonexisopiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96def60aad906030d0e0ddf3120aef64/64341486473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6b0cbd5d6d176e7d13d640779abc9e0b/ronewudosolikerubiges.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alteanetworks.fr/img/file/xowozinevatuvimisizaxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventilatoryzlin.cz/images/file/rinibisoremobitirez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospitals.org/FCKeditor/file/ganudadifowesekukir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cbe976cddd---vadizex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d381fe56be38bc7261fe6fb3e5ddc509/68403672759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aryajob.com/user_upload/file/dojujuxavexafedagopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/navanaleler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osrclass1967.com/clients/8/84/84e84eb3bb32f45446e669e24fea3ebc/File/85488850465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnspkjx.com/d/files/kixatemularomajotoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizesblokk.hu/files/file/fixifometesomapigidewete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axwelindia.com/uploads/47140058478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=tool+hack+the+sims+freeplay+mod+apkPDF 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_off0000ede3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE3 10948 bytes
SHA-256: 4943ae826b94697362d5cfd912af5054d00ec0959cdd617418eddbbcc19948d7
font_01_sfnt_off00010751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10751 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011f63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F63 16860 bytes
SHA-256: 7350addc4bf549e77431fc97d9ea45a721c1d9fb12055bee7f679a7001f09d8d