Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 116544d0cc107b51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:45:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e9276e4ab0674a3e7fb186b8d93370ec SHA-1: f7023f6c2dbda30287e7b04d896b8c48c528a25c SHA-256: 116544d0cc107b51587969b85d2b9c34c1962623f0197231478bc0ae8b9f4de5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to deceive users, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://samsungdvm.net/upload/ckfinder/files/babudekivizakifivowefan.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phrabat.net/UserFiles/File/vifoferideziwivet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f053b9922---99532349935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cpsguffanti.it/uploads/file/pozezekoseloruwedowobar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d9a558d7f3---20852928686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54041139320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudhirsachdevaclasses.com/ci/userfiles/files/93615407690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nomortiga.com/contents/files/18076110217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvgrup.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614134f83c306---32822182020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bibliotekaludwin.pl/img/upload/files/19969789509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://red-adlay.com/upload/files/zuxof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasserentkalkung.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67757661936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homespakistan.net/magzine/uploadfiles/file/92180322433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stihoplet.by/upload/editor/files/mosit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-room.co/userfiles/file/57136896439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srccaa.bdbabymart.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30496884973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mediawerf.nl/bundles/store24backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60945879234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tofoxuzunaguxemiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afritransport.com/app/webroot/files/file/26712943593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/nizako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mclandpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/ganuganapuvixuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhegazgroup.com/userfiles/file/sagafugutozerumas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/81170550300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+edit+capcut+videoPDF 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_off0000e237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE237 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA49 19296 bytes
SHA-256: 44896065cf19864e4fcd827314a983e3a9fc43abda725190f2e50e284ffd24c0
font_02_sfnt_off00012c43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C43 10332 bytes
SHA-256: f872c72a0824b90262bbcfafaee07fa1f905af6fd57f6c63b83ba8a132c70f1c