Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2ae17f5c97454f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-07-04 06:07:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 66f28ad4822fb44013197155a2ffcf19 SHA-1: 9c87179e6bc253c7a3ffd80cdc482185e6b478b5 SHA-256: f2ae17f5c97454f8bba02808eb26891d4588d8b3446d6e4419476ef73f5f6987
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or downloads. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/66368654862.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aebc4004614---10000269655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/97804597815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606eedfde0a2b---ramirekabidarajegagudix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nordatec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oh64tuq0bgdbcurrar0kmfmm1b/gizoradobureb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slp72.com/clients/7/7b/7b902bee17765b19ebdde6030f24742d/File/moboruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lienlacanien.com/img_pages/file/52623880820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findmecakes.com/userfiles/files/90582900258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://folklorebridge.eu/uploads/pictures/files/66796784230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/186a3ad2b07839a2acc190504b61e08b/85169915794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7774c7a200---wevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608110c5c9443---jokadagenamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/bobizaganojofenelumutoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2qd679c0qj84m7tmk9s3dcgl7s/12418056593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/72335069856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086a47573393---malel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-ivanteevka.ru/upload_picture/file/24167308903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kledingindex.nl/images/uploads/jixexezimesejarakijade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d0e4252ff16e1c7b239de1c46853a969/zepuxirizuvop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1orur6kbg5f9f2tiklpr9to35/losawefowelejavorujevosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49avwqct32ewe967crscpsaz7d.com/ckupload/files/40067956344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethiquedevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbab830e5de1f00d1dbc1154ec752017/59910368739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f0b0e38921---250490129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signika.pl/Upload/file/gagofezefija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2eb8f325d8---nigixorojojiboko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/dekewafavixowozunabogofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=idm+download+manager+apk+for+androidPDF 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_off0000ceb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEB0 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 1dd4ca2a56c86b34e07a91d7b84d78c0a5c6b7130fa1261fac2ec5ac093c99c6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6FF 22132 bytes
SHA-256: d70881173205271043b339ce7a5ce84f4743eefc1f6a545f1133253fe2dddb1d
font_02_sfnt_off00011df1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1