Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f161d3ee55b74e23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-08-01 19:15:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 8a7db8e6f5c45b13b6cf10c80f26549f SHA-1: 95279701ec710c141119254bfcfd43c5f5583cdc SHA-256: f161d3ee55b74e2368ebb79cca6b59283fb97fa7aba9a2e7cf99464136d671c1
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on compromised websites and 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 malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://short-story.ru/upload/file/62739191224.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0f1d7221a2---76559358442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jaunimodienos.lt/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/542cqv7d19h8qbkap3td6srogc/90949243130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duepassidalcentro.it/userfiles/files/nopewesivenujumejifem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.puhito.hu/uploads/57131237060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/308cca6d66a0c0003b440b733017511b/17715459449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenue102.com/uploads/file/7492622990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aias.pnu.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77900236971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safaraval.com/basefile/safaravalcom/files/temefovitowaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcoegypt.com/userfiles/files/33669283593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/10307564913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicapoland.pl/uploaded/file/28484444399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/2021625209495488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parkgest.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b03d44cf0d6---44648695006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berkeleyhigh64.com/clients/9/99/99a482d4bd0dc5522cc24ea7f8204a07/File/wonanajip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenorm.com/files/files/3248525549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.whirlpool-beachcomber.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad8458de024---76648848784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/66862157506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elementstraining.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4h53c7te0h722jc4ga7s9pa0tf/zunosifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apsco.ly/userfiles/files/nipujetukiparato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taichielite.com/louis/taichi/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kobelusosixuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logiccpacma.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82444892595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63cc4bf7829a367bd6a0c54390eb8e20/woremezim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aab6feb6768---jixufofidijutuzogib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sammycar.ch/sammy/sites/default/sammyfiles/newsletterfile/finibowoxaverobejusafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=aisc+steel+construction+manual+9th+edition+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_off0000f7ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7AC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010fc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FC3 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 5fcbe108e69c098d16e46283cd1a4a233a39cd4fdb8d1b34e3b319a7bd385d38
font_02_sfnt_off000129ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129EE 18248 bytes
SHA-256: 417f5be16ad1ec352ddbd2dfb98c87b315e0461f8a497e8437f5757688517712