Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2d4e5c368e0f136…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 06:56:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cd8843fec49caac958e71235e765a9f9 SHA-1: 70dac3d36a0b351edf6db30d10e4003196595ed9 SHA-256: f2d4e5c368e0f1360132a6f5df6770050b5bb18b84eabd91c218e466a32c066f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, presenting multiple URLs that likely lead to further malicious content or downloads. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9888

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ben+10+protector+of+earth+apk+download+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://jjc-dev.com/userfiles/file/81039566916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1qjd.com/upload/files/2021-09-17-13-00-08-AWO3DeLY.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brusroom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e3670939b794d72cc23eea454adb9a5/41589517509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurora-c.jp/files/files/farusodawarowodulezopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siangyun.com/upfiles/editor/files/48532078748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkm-market.net/userfiles/file/27464020997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b20acc5a72---dosanasuwuvanuzipoxuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/dofurudesenate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161372ad56f831---96435050119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postele-z-masivu.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11001442763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flapboxes.com/userfiles/files/nodijizodidufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonanbinh.com/userfiles/file/negazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613759ba77660---7730428502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariamozharova.ru/uploads/files/fiturebabof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitanova-cattery.com/upload/file/54158746174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vewowenubobalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/fizerekit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geologicatoscana.eu/userfiles/files/nikudutagopegitifemowakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citysoupsbellevue.com/uploads/files/50281657546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saintarseny.ca/sites/saintarseny.ca/files/file/53741683548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renteci.com/imagens/file/11658792999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulceoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/waxagalotikosino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctmcooper.com/userfiles/files/ninadixusadafipojafifenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealhca.com/admin/images/file/48321639020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/karapojisugokulebodemoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettorobertafasola.eu/userfiles/files/17351961430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off00010826.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10826 18760 bytes
SHA-256: 04c0efa2cab8ef6aafb0a768ef4f56054357c506a4f7447bc3dd192d640b9c78
font_01_sfnt_off00013913.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13913 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 273db1a97475c6637bd89bb4bd7f8cec32bf5e37a23e70617c26814c30632263
font_02_sfnt_off0001527d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1527D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1