Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e065fc0b9cde99a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:27:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-16
MD5: 696f2ccfc2b14e022e950ef3b3dfc5b9 SHA-1: f6e0c099cb116df38257263c87a6283131e4cbb7 SHA-256: e065fc0b9cde99a4017ea888317d9872d58050e24a1d574f6d3c1b526f5ab58f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting sites, likely to download a secondary payload. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://jandebruijn.com/uploadimages/files/93346720587.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.huaikrachaohospital.go.th/assets/global/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2347060239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160718267b5357---bulokanonakuxesulovodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--nellieskche-0hb.de/userfiles/file/gofakosip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/26919323914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://open-call.fr/uploaded/files/fujefupuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotocaroli.it/userfiles/files/58488386060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f32174120d6cc1ae2b842d71ae014bf5/wesufapugij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef01ee8816---nunim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://informerfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bb1b9461c87951220a36c7589206fae/vutodotorubixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.nu/upload/kusodimomoronixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/48027806737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9ca4065139---famapovikexobivor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sattamatkapatti.com/userfiles/file/98515035806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://office-agglo-larochelle.fr/userfiles/file/69916900428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fe54c6c14f---27504325054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/muvukefikutimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poslovniimenik.net/firme_data/files/dategila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/489e8fa45f3a10160a17d3fc2f71bc1e/jetupigivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panhongbo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/site_eachfun_com/files/mopibirepevilute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.motorradfreunde-toggenburg.ch/up/files/385326062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brothersaluminium.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c5f9c92a5a---sedegoveluwabojovudisop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbbd94de5f---milufevomawupuvizisupavuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed6375470e---33514264049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=holy+bible+in+tamil+pdf+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000ef9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF9A 19864 bytes
SHA-256: 2a4fbc534e4b732f6a25d933407c5781278df8ce7d8c8a137af4fe553b08b0f8
font_01_sfnt_off00012376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12376 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013b8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B8D 10824 bytes
SHA-256: d908a5565df31cc2daaf45d836f2a735575ef585c6980e0eba4e7522c78fef54