Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfb64231f73261f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-19 00:08:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 98516cdcfda43cf1184ce74a2e8bf24c SHA-1: 58889c39f3d2554769ae1152310bea5a53c94f3b SHA-256: dfb64231f73261f2c9ae97ceff80b54da9c1b9b77c6b5af0569d316d7d1322df
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic and ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and heuristics point towards a malicious document intended to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://anjingliar2.com/contents/files/5353121892.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kimcert.org/E/file/buvoxamusozunudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flapboxes.com/userfiles/files/jamokef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bb883edc6---37843851989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuketoanvn.org/uploads/files/velujeduletejoxotiwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rm-centr.ru/uploads/file/13493465510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purofirstli.net/userfiles/file/98397360968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139861e4f4ba---41941702102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mintaialuminum.com/d/files/sinidagusajogogusaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/rupaxujuxuzewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baggiez.net/userfiles/file/80065480925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tidomusica.com/uploads/files/202109101533095670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://77owship.netsociality.com/upload/files/deneraxujisudegis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136f0ab875b7---94385716089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtsport.com/pliki/mujulizedumujazulima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldapa.eus/files/galeria/files/nafuwonoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alsharqcc.com/userfiles/files/verokugurelafag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartbrand.ro/mm/file/26288355714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://milsagliksen.org/upload/ckfinder/files/viwekodatorizepifil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/gubelukelika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archgeo-leszno.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/9021988121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///59500214535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c2b227b5e30d1de641219e4473219ff/gakubopisazipuzavezotagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrator4you.cz/UserFiles/File/fakegetubew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tns-china.cn/editor_upload_image/file/30319610402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=last+day+survival+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_off0000db16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB16 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 944fd52a6dd02f70d75314ce7e16ea64b4a238b12d1e24589c0b62c287de0baf
font_01_sfnt_off0000f29e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF29E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010ab0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AB0 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 6d1708d3607a9c2d5b3fa230d63a38e6454e36e41ea5aac535de3deae1553809