Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df456b472e094827…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:45:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ed8f8c38626a73f68cbfe562dc1f916c SHA-1: f8cd7a477a84067b4d1c8fdf0008bc6f1ec25b04 SHA-256: df456b472e0948278760c44d4384b87e6e96779e9261a0b4564750f7536f1b5c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicate an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially distribute further malware or phishing pages.

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://iweldbot.com/ckfinder/pho/files/13668489049.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ttehg5v460sc33jnfgi61teiq8/22886622352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ccengis.be/applications/ckeditor/addons/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/majekubesikinenotikubot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://candica.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kilapelukigomunaxotil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desense.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/45440710241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22333c936b988e8ef524cb3f2d0a4cd1/24235961414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riasztoszolnok.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/wetaridujakomatisafugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/rabudejalibeduvadina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaisar168.com/contents/files/31491024031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://barrierball.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42739604875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportyou.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xunowewinupokekixasegudur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole-belair.com/ecole/file/51938467472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-oilfieldequip.ru/d/files/xexejevasiwewaduwitupeses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usaoxin.com/userfiles/2021-9/file/dukitezoxezarupigosusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bonaparte-kerkrade.nl/fckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/file/nowowuwokemuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140cabbc2715---67036422407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cctechlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xivotujizetowebazixuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playworkspartnership.ca/sites/default/files/file/kazisaminekulux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/xozugavenomumumivimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaowei.tw/image/files/20210911_015554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikkedua.com/contents/files/rojesagetesufanomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef1n4liucoqfggvvhsrq0715lh/pinaxetuzar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralahappyjourney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wuwavimaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+custom+rom+without+rootPDF 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_off0000d904.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD904 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF116 17760 bytes
SHA-256: 905a35ceafe654cdac2e3a6c7660781a71dfa7d1478a8b69e5bac9b1d58c6b6f
font_02_sfnt_off00011f07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F07 10540 bytes
SHA-256: a1cd5146dab96d7b0e7f9cc2d97fbd2cc5913e89136cd27a18be2e6292c5bbf8