Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0153e36f8a476155…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 18:28:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9cf58c10a4103bbd301c04630bb2153b SHA-1: 529c5ec41354fbf8e367860a6bac3eb5cb1a00cb SHA-256: 0153e36f8a476155ef74998b31da75b07acea3027d2d6652d070a1ca42d47dfb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://handinhand-daycare.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nosisukaxojowiv.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tttinox.com/upload/userfiles/files/bopasonuvedokuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papienbanana.com/user_file/file/sumejuboreji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/nijofisima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loskutova.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2008a9d0a239723458fb97988c0a1aa6/jesidevix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flywings.sk/UserFiles/file/91907531897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/lowoxowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinhvi5s.com/images/newtech/files/618870265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.training4thefuture.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332182aba7c---31003462219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhavanarayanaswamy.org/userfiles/file/fujawebigelevobinile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forumts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65058054885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/83842304771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangtutrang.com/upload/files/lanoxiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allivecoat.com/userData/board/file/bidisezib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efficientinfocomm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95300355383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/10120395556131aca34bb13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpcad.pl/Upload/file/texeliduwovukekadukudalir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141513a15146---nurarutof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeight.net/UserFiles/File/96992027645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=ome+tv+download+freePDF 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_off0000c471.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC471 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC83 17200 bytes
SHA-256: 1a8ce108191ee7c66b234c13879eab4dd683ce26099abf48a9f374b49bc09076
font_02_sfnt_off00010924.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10924 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 203a7131aaba78108cccf71d4646afb842f253cda48e770ec5fff6535f3a4c6e