Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 194749012408351e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:03:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0cee07ae1ee8e02759c255f726f0a702 SHA-1: 251e007eba9bdb8060419c4218d750d3524929fa SHA-256: 194749012408351e521f85739d00e417dcb7a9919455042cd698c6fa65a597ad
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, likely intended to lure users to phishing or malware-hosting pages. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://noticiascgnews.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30378165130.pdf
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161419aae0c7ad---zonifikozetome.pdf
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/xadog.pdf
    • https://siam-royal-view.ru/data/files/megikogapi.pdf
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140456e969b1---39221942666.pdf
    • http://kirks-pool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161429b39d99a9---fajitokujuxukekijex.pdf
    • https://rajaunited.com/contents/files/87780108073.pdf
    • http://uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85889127252.pdf
    • https://careerroots.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82448843006.pdf
    • http://barefoot.pl/userfiles/file/soxisatulow.pdf
    • http://skontrolsengineering.com/file_media/file_image/file/43783746863.pdf
    • http://dolinakrzeptowa.pl/public/upload/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21061551057.pdf
    • http://vipdiler.ru/files/file/94750493354.pdf
    • http://floridare.ru/app/webroot/img/uploads/file/070307_venipa.pdf
    • http://bastola.org/userfiles/file/8850289733.pdf
    • http://www.tecnobor.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1381042644.pdf
    • https://australiancaravancentre.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kupomewukasutaxov.pdf
    • https://sunrise-photon.com/upfiles/editor/files/nawowuxusifoninirevo.pdf
    • http://korio-olsztyn.pl/userfiles/file/dogirotaja.pdf
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/mupalifitimiguwajanusu.pdf
    • https://idosekotthonaveresegyhaz.hu/files/files/tazotaxaxonopunikawozef.pdf
    • http://solarissoft.com/img/userfiles/files/nuruwebapa.pdf
    • http://www.udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38858095036.pdf
    • http://oawebserver.com/piceditor/file/karozujulesavunodason.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=android+lento+o+que+fazer
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e14d.bin
5519cebad7844cd87e2ae1519d535bf060f6863b40ead5b960cbd5a158659e54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE14D 20048 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001135a.bin
05f9afdd8153ec947e076ab9ddf0cbf631b3a28b9f4212cf3c11c8a424e92091
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1135A 10468 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b0c.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B0C 16792 bytes