Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0276ffe046d27f0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 10:50:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9aa05528bff1764ab277b9c4024b4cb3 SHA-1: 3f7138fe2a9d52309d399fa96246a32e38cb2dc1 SHA-256: 0276ffe046d27f0b7c1bc1db94b321614648a130dc99670e77be43d91116d904
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, flagging it as a phishing trojan. Static analysis revealed it functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, some hosted on compromised WordPress installations. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests a potential phishing or spam campaign aimed at luring users to click on these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=iphone+camera+compared+to+android PDF link annotation
    • http://osingenieria.com/images/admin/file/56988107878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaushalacademy.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pafevefadovunufidipusawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sooryasales.com/uploads/file/pujulosepobuzimepefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eco-building.cz/UserFiles/File/11618669569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--lenachatka-57b.pl/uploaded/file/57660530271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uitetenindex.nl/images/uploads/13589552296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/52614936623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipgene.com/image/files/20210908_211555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lachina.cn/upload/file/ripazapotuwekin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161400653a5080---47989758999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://putzlappenborner.at/editor_up/gurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2sisaccount.com/userfiles/files/xixow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.magicapro.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142c4baea4bc---xoxunebasukoxovaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/wubaguxolud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baikalspring.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80764348810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hophungvietnam.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/bewezorukifotalevuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wiz-fac.com/uploadImg/file/54555567333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mylin.in/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/momumomidifek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ofitecnic.es/files.ofitecnic/fck_up/file/99637539471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://85560891.com/upfolder/e/files/20210914081819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://patroha.hu/file/96076044021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiakaha.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5k82hvop4cbqn36j1joi97vgf4/26712995574.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_off0000b626.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB626 15792 bytes
SHA-256: 9aa608f2b39550a12336866858af9258656bd953b3454ca3efa55332a2c44572
font_01_sfnt_off0000de75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE75 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f68c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF68C 10516 bytes
SHA-256: f79ed4745ad39c45bb450e26f4360f9ffc730b3d8736279df33d84b0cd52081b