Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1278ba588e70a1f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-13 02:48:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: d235ae8d1d79989ab3269065ce65592f SHA-1: a49e45c1775dd7bcd64ee342d1d7fe2e7bb2423c SHA-256: 1278ba588e70a1f40dbc4fdd0df9e01bb160b5a0362837414b2c70d915577b65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://mchs.kz/userfiles/File/kunupexemebegalugu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mbeautyconcept.com/upload/content_images/file/36817565660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/namededekuned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/memexofexakisamigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipssecurityconsultants.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16899107217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drzwiukryte.pl/userfiles/file/97191204834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aajude.pt/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55116280662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intersensor.ro/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/rejidufokafipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/425529877bd0922a4729af34791e0444/xogowamavefekomegesudawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afdddad35becfadce6c15c1dc7062b60/taguzuporudokefewalovisam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5655039817ce39b6e8acdee03036467f/nasexet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khanikango.in/file/batev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indecomavo.pl/userimg/inc/98347016602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teater77.nl/userfiles/file/batijatelivapuxidapuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://droneducational.com/admin/userfiles/file/40410284712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waycreon.net/bhaskar/yii/upload/files/duxopiwetewukefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/didagedopedopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drnanemilk.com/tctt/sites/aaa/file/51008110933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pristineleather.com/userfiles/file/zatuzarek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/vodiludofumovowob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sure2trips.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/detonomikinifadevizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stefani.cz/fck/file/45943916688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139cc0e56942---sedobawafogix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khojedu.net/userfiles/file/32855332718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topimmigrationlawyer.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61990057554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linker.tw/files/debofikipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpaxis.net/userfiles/file/guparozivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=4ukey+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000d532.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD532 10300 bytes
SHA-256: d53c352147d9097724db110aea3c84245417fa93dda001579656fdc2d27c9aeb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC8D 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 080089af6cf803ee96b9bc0962ba19172f4f1575108bf403b394c1efa47e2a8f
font_02_sfnt_off00011a7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A7A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1