Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd947625a72ad652…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 11:07:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2e12b11dff16253de3f951082a993ed4 SHA-1: 08b8e134f21f731f423f2b52c9bf5d638bc3d168 SHA-256: fd947625a72ad652c456d9b07e8f53238696f2ae819862a26ef06986bac72444
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to other PDF files hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the document is designed to trick users into downloading malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bhagavad+gita+english+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://avandcie-automation.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13259684068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reutlinger.pl/userfiles/file/vixokorokujesikekoriroxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/wobuzubepinolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smalternatywa.pl/media/upload/files/b7f55f32dec28359a3ef6dba0f77c26d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/91505131778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093da4b44fe9---55312737141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56014144554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vzwsportenmuziek.com/content_docs/bomububogexepit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c253f59535b10fc0c1326795d49fac6f/48801239459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wowbond.com/upload/Fckeditor/file/57231540625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tremonttemplemacon.com/clients/862779/File/58206218195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/87276483377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucmas.com/userfiles/file/xufipagufadotogig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://liebherr-tr.com/userfiles/file/woguvojalonijatubigux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://presentkompaniet.com/img/content/file/36910356465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/62418404088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d0a07a972f---wafapigagifigurakobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deficanderel.org/clients/6/67/674a09facce11b7629d390eef9534ff9/File/15755423582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scilights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07215cd9acf441a971b98aa09018d004/66755297690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b684a2421b4---buzotafefisisokudezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/21635123425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carszana.com/image/upload/File/topozowipuxati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulf-rope.com/images/bulk_images/files/fobutunagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/64322702510.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_off0000e620.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE620 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE32 18352 bytes
SHA-256: aa4cb4c02c01cbff4604fabc9bdd25e83e0fce55f444b7cc64efe26119dec299
font_02_sfnt_off00012df4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12DF4 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 0865a82a69325eaa41c1257b3daea12d1a8384be706e0478b2ba5939566e4799