Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1923c5334c3f66cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 05:36:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 10b2e63cede27aa9772c257a2e3925ce SHA-1: e6bdc4d2eb3fa7c685d1f5987d8a5cf44f9dea4c SHA-256: 1923c5334c3f66cdd6200e1b82fa884fefac70f39f16bc36eda2e80cbfabc818
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external URIs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis are sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/52842185721.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d2807bbdf2---80648890860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digivideos.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33609055344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fishuntpesca.it/file/misewibizesugipef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72787485766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/zupag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kryotherapie.net/neu/userfiles/file/82511633565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://invest.pl/userfiles/file/71058494370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birons.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b37838d7b78446174780d0327e98de8/sunupawazabarabija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickendaylacrescenta.com/uploads/files/kolizamujadoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.org/uploads/file/22306755790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hung168.tw/UserFiles/files/fojokuxipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://norilsk.torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/rupemanaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jezirka-biobazeny.cz/UserFiles/File/69201644498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.helpfulhunks.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613db9d8213d3---44500817755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bscsaoner.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/183882179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apexforestservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132bbaf9e22b---vumur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mut-zur-veraenderung-hambuch.de/userfiles/file/8345108224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcremich.lu/files/files/fipopowegat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masterok-kovka.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/386c7a8eeb9f2bf9fe78b5ee57b0863e/sofutetefibafisuwege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiehuist.com/userfiles/files/96837983206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.iieng.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10701314954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.breastcancerfoundation.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95a8b65dad24369162520cd73a26c0d7/sepamipoxonemevupumedeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/27069823277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bdac86f8d---niponabogemapuzitasitixad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=dragon+ball+droidPDF 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_off0000e15f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE15F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f976.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF976 10168 bytes
SHA-256: ba8b7894d070328e82b23ad9836b31e7ca399c47ab58ad63898caffa5ea0606d
font_02_sfnt_off00010fef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FEF 20608 bytes
SHA-256: 5225fc4cfd5d7edcbfce66c7644fd6f4594ab491c5aaefc1616e0ce49cf91278