Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1034228fa3228549…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-24 09:03:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f03f921d81d120397dc9dc31d7e7db2e SHA-1: a84eebdab395d18ec8b24fbd7b95983104314871 SHA-256: 1034228fa3228549866dd2327182390e3d586393e324d8182c7564b583b6496b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised websites and are designed as a link farm. The presence of a 'utm_term' parameter suggests a phishing or social engineering lure, likely related to software activation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://xeroxexpres.cz/userfiles/file/jozewuzakoterare.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://valleyrentals.com/userfiles/file/80290116099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://equipociclistaugeraga.com/ciclistas/userfiles/file/51971298738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resumesfromabove.com/userfiles/file/71070864922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hurghadalife.net/userfiles/files/lijorekifenekadave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xebecdesign.com/xebec/userfiles/file/gikinuzefosupumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uppersanduskyrotary.com/cms/files/File/61214442895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202109061018022121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/747bbc67ef763f2412dd19ffa2c57873/xafewubijokigidax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morecoredesign.com/images/imageUps/files/3803855992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bisenzia.it/userfiles/files/bebigerukagasumadogufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcc.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/100d09tj38tdajhqd326tja8lf/26474767971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stayinbranson.com/ckfinder/triplebuserfiles/file/rubirofumegedav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vibangthuaphatlai.net/uploads/files/romewabomat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/solexefuzesopufike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duepassidalcentro.it/userfiles/files/doresezoposagovufotepejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139fbd51e16f---55240407024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stapper.de/sites/default/files/userfilesfile/51280396543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yucekalipmakina.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/87820601029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xyoaa.org/sites/default/files/files/37302298290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.savininkai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28272717904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theflowermaker.com/uploads/File/tugizokuduxuxugesazimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2885f09088397406aefb4b93e0968f2d/50166709382.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldfieldssanddrags.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sodunelasilumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=office+2019+free+activationPDF 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_off0000d94c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD94C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f15e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15E 17192 bytes
SHA-256: 254df78a22ab8c36680a45dd8c4f626119247c36d5933da2d6c1221327a6c570
font_02_sfnt_off00011df7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DF7 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 2fd28aaeda43016bf633e0944d0c17d6a6000f1330d31e213d802786680d22d0