Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f211366dc7d767da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-08-19 00:49:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 2ac850cf0cde6af220b081323ef190d8 SHA-1: cc1affab185d6177b398d3f3c23c336ece75be9e SHA-256: f211366dc7d767dab01e18eecdf8d7290a0e93225977c14d2e5e4cb6fa8a12a7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm, with many URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ig3d8ejclqbmjkmnn8p1lu1b94/fukiko.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mcalesterhighschool1960sreunion.com/clients/e/e6/e641a1dc2b4fc8b0483efb779338bfbd/File/jorivazepisugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://51-lq.com/userfiles/file///zopim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/fowamatizugob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://italiangreyhound.pl/img1/userfiles/file/21089672621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthmatters.me/userfiles/file/45803818525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe693c255d4---baxogerezulibise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e4259618c---gopofujugazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatiyabhashaparishad.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86263634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mosvag.ru/img/lib/file/88144460286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/83038414446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123natura.com/stockages/files/kosawegolujugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://astorandblack.net/emailer/userfiles/file/76635667688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanti-fitness.pl/uploads/assets/file/8310575297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nokianhakkablue.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94105396631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wirtrauenuns.ch/images/file/41445461763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aurorabersinar2.com/contents//files/figuxak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075f66c089eb---35202210286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d10a4b1e4b7114ba8d596af8d5db8b1/zakupinegawuridiziwodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abeb4963b4e6cc634e5af6b5f1f93912/lojatugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlasautoglass.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bacf68e88---38117674092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitecoreromania.ro/files/file/zupofuguza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambres-hotes-aube-bleue.fr/userfiles/file/kodenobomugegag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=mitosis+worksheet+matching+match+the+term+to+the+description+answersPDF 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_off0000c0ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0AE 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 9fecebec65989e2c09fbf89976c46c48e865c53d2fd9fdd91b3e4fc671ba4725
font_01_sfnt_off0000da3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA3C 16972 bytes
SHA-256: c4e4ce6868ddc2973ef4d7797180a6357797279ffb76906bb498e3225ca37ad6
font_02_sfnt_off00010662.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10662 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1