Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df98140440ebfb5e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 14:13:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5c7e2357cff47ddbc225901cf9760588 SHA-1: aae941580799e3a2308f33f699ab388307d42f88 SHA-256: df98140440ebfb5e741c1b7dfd507a590ae406d7e1f69662649a5818b1d9102e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/74649020840.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161334e9e3842c---73105756176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contelex.it/userfiles/files/40251441157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613997a469194---dakivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dakov.hu/_user/file/tifajipojonifelobomub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dycmc.com/DATA/upload/files/202109020358506930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skazka76.ru/pic/userfile/11166647974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fieldofgreen.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59a28a0b645613b35be8f6b1b7ba9761/7288342603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a4d420818b---gegozabiruwixibebojodas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brixtontaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/14551036248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-soar.com/userfiles/file/zalebitago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turdv.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/14613801151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwcecckolkata.org/FCKeditor/file/50835831124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.stnedu.com/ckfinder/upload/files/kagakanefikopotola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yakutiaprime.ru/SITE/files/editor/file/buvovabopozufeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alkathirilaw.com/userfiles/files/9720863888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inwestorfinanse.pl/userfiles/file/66925133382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.advids.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f144b09d91---55337273910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.horakgolf.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/godav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/84t5p712c0apptqcij533nlktu/vedipedefefoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbdecontra.com/userfiles/files/todepazone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/fabidabetojuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veszpremkosar.hu/_user/file/wafasegopugulilevesada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pelicanfinancialnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wisesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coquicart.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/rodarimizogogonegenuvuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=best+site+to+download+cracked+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_off0000e30a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE30A 10736 bytes
SHA-256: e548e15e59ee43f233b96e44fa3114a26de6d27ccd82d9782efc54fa24657705
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011405.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11405 19004 bytes
SHA-256: aefc3badfc7bcd00d04f532c2e13341c92c4985267c73a4b73b6efa9ede1ce28