Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1664092fa83b46c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 19:11:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 586fa8d76e484ea7a6f7e14c7707ba97 SHA-1: 2c7d641d8861555d0b9a4557f4a00dcf02de260a SHA-256: 1664092fa83b46c3283cabc0cc3ea1dcd834e974419cda1778defe099e07cc4f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which are hosted on disposable or compromised infrastructure. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/48f02b09a75afbd7900cde0f2856a35e/gorufekegan.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://blackhorsesc.pl/userfiles/file/lokomevatuzex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tongchangkj.com/uploadfile/file///2021090603461813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp2.com/contents/files/35632999205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0l46gv8p4gupjmhrp0feb4d8f0/85900708944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamasataccessories.com/userfiles/files/kevanifufamasadivaxotuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1adbbbaeqjtsflbfms0e.xn--p1ai/pict/file/tadalogeluwano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rentaruedas.com/files/others/wumafujideka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/30317806348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613953a18e77d---23507559392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbhshipyard.com/userfiles/file/87255263757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sergiomauri.com/images/file/tijoxiratogetomerefoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f0212ccda---joxasodewis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macintosh-szerviz-javitas.nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18503215848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/gefetalud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prolocolidodisavio.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sanisezekif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearspace-design.com/CKEdit/upload/files/64684724443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/59020160979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pegasomeeting.medcoast.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38142720669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/59080385958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupahatak.pl/admin/_fck_files/file/jovigeruvosiwokuzaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmandarin.com/uploads/ruxemoxujitekedipoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmk.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93972057043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lor-rostov.su/userfiles/files/kinomimobogafupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+turn+off+background+running+apps+on+androidPDF 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_off0000b3f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC0C 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 2631f903028807d7469eeac2c8c5336b8338bfa1bd620e5632fac1607ee9a7bf
font_02_sfnt_off0000e571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE571 14652 bytes
SHA-256: 2b3a297dcef888a1c045004db7b441caf45ca9452636a12477b4a5040e646294