Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1363a8be05377736…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-09-25 13:06:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: aaaf174f1265688dc6b66bcbd9453274 SHA-1: f954298947f0715748984ac3d1339c4250c6b1ca SHA-256: 1363a8be05377736bf96b4b8d0f26ae6277745f6c1b0db23c6d6f6df89262f8d
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous links, many with UTM parameters, suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 http://www.likoda.com.tw/upload/ckimg/files/kiwexegifizajupusoka.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.aragonemprendedor.com/userfiles/files/dojegivupoguzefitirazew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.org/files/galeria/files/jagukimezebeniruzal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aow.infogestnet.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88290805500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rambud.pl/uploaded/file/87852763497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brno-skoleniridicu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85477008158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gift-founder.com/archive/upload/files/jibogikerinabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlinendttraining.com/files/tafefirozodolinakoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://savvyais.com/userfiles/file/xozagopopenerikenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/vibodawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.musicmaestrodiscos.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b7c5c1ab01---27938080716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nd-58.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0d69e4763ca9b270559c4cf8e8931b90/89284404273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a696f9ea9c0245b83c6a95ba233dcad9/73385677268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saga.diamonds/uploads/ckfinder/files/mabemavemefadazisifivivir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27286584190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tranhdaquyhn.com/uploads/news_file/27468050573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d06a303232---30705066306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dossalas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/214d2c49d48b5c9ff96299acdad63baf/86591971845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maytinhtuyenquang.com/home/maytinhtuy/domains/maytinhtuyenquang.com/public_html/images/file/putenelak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studiorosaliabusco.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85201353132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakkersvlaanderen.be/resources/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/0/files/5118649674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eatoceanic.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/64567768139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=android+as+hid+devicePDF 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_off0000ae74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c68b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC68B 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 897addd5d1b610d1982adb23c9aa372d3b087ee77269e6ef87ee3fe3dbd21af7
font_02_sfnt_off0000ddea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDEA 16744 bytes
SHA-256: 74c8d29ec4f1e3568aa62b463cc95025ec520d350097b434ba291361df9bbdeb