Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f630e81f83819d07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 10:02:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 5b9b2bbbbd416d9bd05a338f99c7c51e SHA-1: a24275dd1a90ca2661a3c0f8673685c72a149ab5 SHA-256: f630e81f83819d07ed1be6773009c76a4ccc68397cdef85f894393cb582f99cf
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious files. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. ClamAV detection and ML classification confirm the malicious nature of the PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/mapagifabulivirogi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/molenetezijol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be3cab3b2f9b7917fe846e066cf91eeb/duferunotanuzenekojev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://latexindia.com/userfiles/file/favinewowujigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gift-founder.com/archive/upload/files/biwemagataka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/sotixutawubatuwigukinetog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16100ee56ab9eb---18764246852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecofincas.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57771916112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/70579685989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://precisionautoandac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/59cce8a8e8d0c9e65c72a8ca757f9232/31557852655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/zewuvej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160719831eb201---34698831579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45929415831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/89885929085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webhostmurah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b54d452d52a---jilipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file//files/pizivifugepemaberagagewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/15366822058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72094d5b76ad53c563c6c232b8147250/51243005797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joy05.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/bomovimeramurisonoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://justbuymeds.net/userfiles/file/wovas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9vqpfj71r27bracsaupms3n18u/72358242864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbf-cosmetics.com/website/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16101182790700---82933861778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t1a69jcoscjr3jrl34mha9lpns/jajibovetefepebut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084efd682e69---zedotedobewowanogurog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ewms.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c861b3ktp6342hdhbmg41hr02t/xokujataririjisotap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=nihongo+challenge+n4+n5+pdfPDF 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_off0000bcf5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCF5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d50c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD50C 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 040872c2a384b25fdfb4e9be0d9819259168fceb38928b31d863863e1aabb575
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED6C 15880 bytes
SHA-256: f3f83c64643b1269826e30cd4b790c763165aae447f373f4b3740338e6bad936