Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 181092653001a508…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-10-12 21:11:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a31cd287ebf65746e8e340bda9c6c272 SHA-1: 004b24f079200056d7de3825fa1342a6a49e90d0 SHA-256: 181092653001a5087132e27eb8abfa1dbaabb4d7b7d3169e044d5371b474e264
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to domains that are either compromised or appear to be disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics and link farm detections strongly suggests a malicious intent 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 http://dinobajka.pl/Upload/file/xexebe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://confetti-seasons.ru/upload/files/gototajipumimepoviminox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenderdiary.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77107570432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16159714b2c0b2---30940350108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gerocuki.hu/user/file/37893174899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.studiorosaliabusco.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84749634817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmondo.com/userData/board/file/soduzudasifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7809751063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dhesient.com/media/16473492136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://proxkimya.com/resimler/files/divowaxaxasogaxebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weorderfood.com/uploads/files/madapetudobufomal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koddous.com/userfiles/file/77051820849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158e5f95e024---7977215820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/kejurigoluretosevaleze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annassteen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gobenuborek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edituj.cz/res/file/livesonejifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archifolder.com/userfiles/files/97856745940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://readandenjoy.ae/userfiles/files/12538729672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cargotavio.ru/files/file/dipul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbezcba9a5aggb3j.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23260444465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ev-owners.jp/userfiles/files/61684693257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibericadearmerias.com/file/45775967762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceadersvalet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f76784aaf8---5910371616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yongchengtech.com/uploads/files/202109071124349466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ba1e25e381---59888215277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indyztyle.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73447771377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stlukesfp.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sarasiruge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/D9plVHj2VOU/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+sociological+imagination+definitionPDF 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_off0000e15e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE15E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f975.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF975 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 01019af1ed0809a06ea00815558378f0b7f948b2250f55069e53c5f5d50236af
font_02_sfnt_off0001120b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1120B 18804 bytes
SHA-256: 6e3a36e1943aac6d160c96a4cf1806230edc9e1b5de3ec66d9f2acc267547754