Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1195a45e62329218…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 04:57:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 79f362cc38c45378fd3c604301c7f7d7 SHA-1: 9cfbc3f509a319bb73953478c4bfde39f6d18d08 SHA-256: 1195a45e62329218931e6d07940e82690a2eb664fdecc30b1d420ca6516c7381
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous URLs, including those hosted on compromised CMS uploads, strongly suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=technical+analysis+explained+martin+pdf
    • https://portugaliaimagyarok.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saxalanud.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jc93kjhbs0np984tthmrp1chm3/72283451097.pdf
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wenoketale.pdf
    • https://tungafilm.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gexulukixapidov.pdf
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/et0o20ggh6ca236snujm4vo0n4/28958879125.pdf
    • https://mobile-translator.eu/app/webroot/media/files/25602093237.pdf
    • http://studioprogettoarchitettura.eu/userfiles/files/berinokow.pdf
    • http://phanphoiongnhuahoasen.vn/upload/files/34505908643.pdf
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/naxubajipozokiw.pdf
    • http://calzaturificiocatia.it/userfiles/files/59562695374.pdf
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088fdfdd7b83---64042626446.pdf
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa57bb7d6d---91002890325.pdf
    • https://sjalikave.hu/pictures/file/61076008374.pdf
    • http://hfengly.dk/skoleportalen/userfiles/file/16272946715.pdf
    • http://squash-fitness.cz/userfiles/file/xesepodexonidupijakafux.pdf
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a73d90bbe53f4104167e5d6609d736b/sajugekezamu.pdf
    • https://oiweld.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e96374b47c52e67726ff5face7a3b650/85553350135.pdf
    • https://m-astar.com/UserFiles/files/tirusajidujigezoxif.pdf
    • http://gidromall.ru/img/uploads/file/fomagok.pdf
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/11974324323.pdf
    • http://murito.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89602319158.pdf
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/13442307883.pdf
    • http://apnorajasthan.net/userfiles/file/jizuzoru.pdf
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11e75r4r7vgdbi3q51teaj8pd5/kuxijufalumepifapinolugut.pdf
    • https://bio-obst-und-gemuese.de/userfiles/file/60546762215.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c4fd.bin
61fb853d05685cec7c9910df76f0c2776e69eb6cf95794464dae29516fa8f4a7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4FD 18068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f46b.bin
cc7c881e6bd4bb9615a8dcf78a8f9443ef5eaa8e854540c0d927ee4f65ef1a89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46B 10944 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010d9f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D9F 16792 bytes