Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 138794a98535e234…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-10-05 20:56:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 702b9e189a7e1e4993128cb03ddf5013 SHA-1: 1c01a87c13888b62b6d94a59c416a43166febea2 SHA-256: 138794a98535e2343c3bc777c53bb3324d346bff9e6ba73106708e6964db7477
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous external URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=easy+piano+notes+for+popular+tamil+songs PDF link annotation
    • https://scalping.ir/data/files/file/17831235158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140cad3815b5---nakowagopoporiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jr.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75652542816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133281050078---92129796480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korsorlampang.net/user_img/files/mevanuzotuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vandiestbrandstoffen.be/uploads/files/20445965333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/xuvefuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88129880633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed378e75f3---ponitopotufuzajepej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icareonline.net.au/ckfinder/icare/files/varobiguzafuvixabev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yameitecl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210917_224620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://invismortgagebroker.com/images/file/28395446189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ctbguteehkho5h.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80782159056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hla.vn/upload/files/tuvek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.britocunhaadvocacia.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e269f5e6fe---rifufifotilapetim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/files/xizewikomukusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage4.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/vawiwijazow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayinmaunhat.com/upload/files/sibatogenapuwegiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yournew.site/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e74v2bdlqjhajm2vpfgt2c50k8/92341984930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kerama.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toreliped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/nipemifolekujudud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.biz/userfiles/files/gumavopop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtongrongshang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210911221614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiemtoandongnghi.com/public/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/norevoxuzuvofuwisigaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaufortbond.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e30c75fcd72df4af4f4657fc9af0868c/piwutefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000f50f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D26 10900 bytes
SHA-256: a05f9c7c82fb3700f7765b8fbfa425a0bf9edc4fbafa994f03e189b5bff7bf44
font_02_sfnt_off00012663.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12663 20612 bytes
SHA-256: 1fea83b524f2f49cb4cf539472ca1cfb7ef1cd435f3f39ccf2d2c04e96e7b288