Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00869b9458b7c297…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-03 15:21:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: de15b48c20f38237f2013822bc951921 SHA-1: 229e3284cf8a85a0d2fb407df7b570a143c0be50 SHA-256: 00869b9458b7c297daaf86da686eca20f7ac3ea497665c1d5c0f84a7c325612e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised websites, forming a link farm. This pattern is commonly used to obscure the final malicious destination, likely a phishing page or a download server for further malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/77326406915.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca499e0d72---44978258021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frigotechreina.com/userfiles/files/kebuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a649cf2f64a5832ff6f4ccd131bb08c9/fevevireporajimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itkaufmann.com/images/fckimages/file/sasek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/nenuxidare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lionkingbali.com/uploads/file/22549442236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kor-ra.ru/UserFiles/file/silab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d4a4683170---78511301684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimaletto.com/uploads/file/33793015707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blgjad.com/upload/files/repixapurunorobaleno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38544a6a649f058117eb1ba28de7b376/42578736837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kermiradiatoriai.lt/images/files/39108085544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sumterhigh89.com/clients/863574/File/91218342353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fexusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/54693420830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhs1970.com/clients/9/98/98bceae81adeaace0f0761aa7b0d12fa/File/22801959148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161030d9ebcb5a---63489655206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609086a778582---7765894951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://retentionstudentexperience.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdcc517947---bifirusuworadot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigyikesmedia.com/home/xtremweb/public_html/consultinstitute/web/upload/files/30681176357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/wadomalixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eotp.info/sites/default/files/fck/file/zibekanorexiworuxite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mnspineandsport.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4fff1a58caa53780c124d1a224d17db/49303674093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samiznojmo.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2b1b81275548d6b99d9a8076d138d3d/vupikonanenojer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=pdf+converter+download+for+pc+windows+10PDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/83b0bef837283951d53f05277830f275/3972279683.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_off0000d0ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0ED 16680 bytes
SHA-256: 171620730b2e171cec99531e73d654ce8f75c505c8250ab24e029f83a8c5ed46
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC2A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011441.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11441 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 85bee81c46348bf7d67d520e9c6279fdc1144106114b8f3123c9c3f18f387613