Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1747cf93cc78c768…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.5 KB Created: 2021-09-23 18:03:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: af3d95abe337b9f66b2ddc066c58e42f SHA-1: 432e0e8414b41985c5473f0a4e12aafc9eb8e8c3 SHA-256: 1747cf93cc78c768a93edad55ee7062ea14e713a7ae88961921057141aa578ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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 http://duplisite.com/userfiles/file/wunilu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://unewstoday.com/task/userimages/file/46410064985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boden.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/62453054576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90513be467a8cbcfcef3919a91268a69/15207945313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profesa.net/userFilesfile/87021890949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d787c5c62---24549713443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pscworld.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70161720851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/8416312683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hunde-katzen.at/soubory/ruriwixuxiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zimmerei-possert.at/xewubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://na3.it/misc/file/75403094437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profipreklady.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/labisutimobupobutaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dabien.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e9bf5f170---zijaparojupenuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thomasgearon.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/31323135204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oilmachineydy.com/d/files/visopovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.com/contents/files/95920178150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaziwevipiwasude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/80647480422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dc-42351dc5a6b3.prshots.es/uploads/userfiles/1630947335/files/luzubutaduzorebijud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trongtinpc.com/luutru/files/sugenezan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.benyowsky.com/resources/files/zodumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbexpertise.fr/catalogue_dynamique/file/zerites.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///25044695310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=battlefield+5+apkPDF 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_off0000d2e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E5 10276 bytes
SHA-256: cc1ba59ce7bd641bb7b1ef0cd444adaab5f68c3c84f6e40a79f6409ae0583b1c
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA32 17816 bytes
SHA-256: ac451507f3692ae83683493b89a5a47922707320824f71d8ed246092cefd31f5
font_02_sfnt_off00011898.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11898 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1