Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfc147b5be253a10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-08-25 08:59:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 10e462e92a27df6854bd043027e8cb9e SHA-1: fb6d1b7335b06b846f2d9aec057a3fcb9e582042 SHA-256: dfc147b5be253a1022375dbbc264692a6eb6ba43ae2fb49a4edbbaedf043a086
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites, likely intended to trick users into downloading a secondary payload. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports the malicious intent of hosting malicious files on compromised infrastructure.

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://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608aa80fe973e---14934817620.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bulongvungtau.com/media/ftp/file/64535721655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ratchadatitan.com/UserFiles/File/36965984248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/62786471864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geopraxis.it/userfiles/files/3966382137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9963e25ac4477e0196b04d9cbf20203/gapidederelesawevemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riskhedgetech.com/uploaded/file/173144310560de289f08471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r8ke08v5dpnm1jdsk9tfoa13gm/lasoxevusubilijusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inncredel.com/uploads/metobunotos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buyyoutubesubscribers.com/ci/userfiles/files/87886438542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podiummagazinenews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58371377651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donaldnathanlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lixizugita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab429d0260---tadazupikeroliguzal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3ce3ed578---36338618698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a547c0fb13431e8a40c42b5c0757443/fijinevoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maduraigarlandshop.com/userfiles/file/gozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mega-gold.com/userfiles/files/botelakijabuvilun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/lalimelufavisapatuxaviwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.synergyheart2heart.team/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jsifpkqlp4h7ovhrli37aaboea/44223862715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/202162699357019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/66778022457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smart-ventures.ch/upload/Editor_Images/files/volejerisewipixabowixafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sskj.pl/userfiles/file/vokezugawavefojuwogunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=superuser+for+android+10PDF 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_off0000e941.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE941 16480 bytes
SHA-256: e313c870cbbda46e62e6ec4dbc5d755644a09aab868107a9ae11a6191d29bb5c
font_01_sfnt_off000113b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113B1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BC8 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 944fffd0579df5dd1497a4107279cad29cbfb2595970a95136bce2d7c1bdbb29