Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df56cd716f4e198c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 09:12:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ac0328afaed73337d5fa21ab30cdfa29 SHA-1: 4ed12bad0ddba45efbf39456c369357cb31c4418 SHA-256: df56cd716f4e198cd91a5f27e26d1552389e770cb8155a98577154cb4a64e052
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kannil+kashi+thumbakal+mp3+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://5uempat.com/contents/files/4439650824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzstock.com/Upfiles/file/93962373036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arqing.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7114168143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://connatlas.com/home/conn/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26196244180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metrocars.london/survey/userfiles/files/xerabigonarew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shoreluxurylimos.com/userfiles/files/17807609325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conomiya.com/images/uploadedimages/file/73516238303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntep2008.com/UserFiles/File/80026594557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malabarisproducoes.com/arquivos/files/jusawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents/files/94478040061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bk.knu.ac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/newovikule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/bajofamar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49cd639ab83c0e7f6bd00b32a95e5811/76486183243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panda-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/jenakokaxavamopasitup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613825068d53a---fomadixomawem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netshopnepal.com/userfiles/file/60345365954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthocarecentroortopedico.it/userfiles/files/desurexewupirivemelef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/87343712827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cd8eda1a36---zugagebukabezisugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3488371521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-sat.cz/userfiles/file/49415970724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://builderall.info/userfiles/file/kavebujobupesok.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_off00014067.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14067 22516 bytes
SHA-256: 78894b6087da324d435437b1506817e174c99644e27f9e3e2f5ae95fefba8d47
font_01_sfnt_off00017a28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17A28 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001923f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1923F 11344 bytes
SHA-256: 6722c000fd9a369d017fc5039728913c4cf9cb67207bc94beb32ef6989a564ec