Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a4e87dfca209243…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 00:19:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: ee39e813071d8ca67a6cb82509d7aa0c SHA-1: d76e25df7e803cf449cf41a72d0cf15a90d26829 SHA-256: 1a4e87dfca2092435e0e8a7334f9b3ec24e2eed2b2607a40877ab064b2afb65e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious websites for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/guwewigigir.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://resonanceacteurs.nl/userfiles/file/14765389988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christopherspubandgrille.com/userfiles/files/66188655395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabbanbros.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/xinolabukage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142e240342c9---xevege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a912ce954---63454740811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acutecardio.ru/sadm_files/44850015524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsgarten.com/editorData/file/37800764081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milcontabil.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sup045gobtsjidkjlq9t4eud42/pexunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memsports.com.br/admin/libs/ckeditor/ckfinder/files/xidutijaraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/26173449194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peoplesmodelinternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rogifarurabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kapsalonindex.nl/images/uploads/lekosetupato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/11523015845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefarmatarapahoecounty.com/userimages/91582268139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/94842280176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tg-focus.ru/userfiles/files/92730055992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioaec.com/userfiles/files/8690381533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careersourceokaloosawalton.com/files/public/kotosawodenidilogiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/16988729747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/borilemolenerivavaxube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613408f371cb5---walomazezevezobij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pescepiana.eu/userfiles/files/tusemapimidetujilevev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avsa.org/sites/default/files/images/files/sogagikebigab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kar360.com/resimler/files/novunom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=liz+in+september+full+movie+english+subtitles+onlinePDF 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_off0000c596.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC596 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dda8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDA8 19152 bytes
SHA-256: 9a50289ce7f1d2b683a99903c56f458aa26cfda5612d8aceb6ca98495ab67c2a
font_02_sfnt_off00010f90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F90 10968 bytes
SHA-256: d9714e9f246bc90fe69aab33e6da235b4d13c39fcdb12e140a7b2dbdd00638b3

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