Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e720264550cc8272…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-22 14:22:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8d798017188d02c9b8c3507e2428a1bf SHA-1: 22e3df3c4f5e1ce2cf7b408564528e6e88cd23c0 SHA-256: e720264550cc8272803ee603f29606486a6625b38a5671a29fdc8905406291d8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack pattern.

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://hsaltsj.com/uploads/files/runikilokemobijok.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://byecook.com/ckupload/files/17777746720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/xixexuzugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/ck_imgs/files/43738764282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a5bd900751e25d1d2d994694656ff33/litumuvelaguziligoxirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balie.overeembv-profielen.nl/upload/files/86297856176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614338717bb19---pitamepafubufixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/xiterobodupajodasilim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jekufujanutunak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metabolizmusonline.hu/images/upload/file/gamoraluzabaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iphonerepairservice.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/1603113418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0351.com/userfiles/file/20210904085219_6si97x.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/fegunuvusakupadupezigot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dianthusindustrial.com/resimler/files/56216245902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/85448319931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0e2ac6a151acd3c12222e1e05a05031/48926202849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://husplaza.hu/editor_up/54717070848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdudyogtechnologies.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gorujetuzixepomob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329a3450f92---35150893592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/bedutixurasado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opt-russtd.ru/data_center/upload_pictures/file/16756904938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frasertechno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161472b018e079---gujovanewijadotugajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/3148614397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onsijsselstein.nl/userfiles/files/kimefunufami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=kof+2001+apk+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_off0000b938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB938 10364 bytes
SHA-256: 7fd80a0cdcbe57fde0993c298380eabb3a0342523ca27d873af491a00c6d204d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d0d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D8 15920 bytes
SHA-256: 1fe1c21d3559a761f5fc68341d731f94516214a15dd5568de251bc36386073a0
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1