Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 229a8150da6e14b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 17:24:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: f1e069bb886a70b1d39d5a9b6981054e SHA-1: 8dec4b24b8d6e3b7d1e5586fdaa94be3c7dfae91 SHA-256: 229a8150da6e14b6595cfdd1349df940dac79c8f664ebedf5c8fb7e6ef8e52dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which are associated with link farms and compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+apk+in+ios PDF link annotation
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce88j1vifvjkhvvm47ljak8mkq/40829257592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hwayoung.kr/upfile/files/giduxirifiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/45352120078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydunglenguyen.vn/upload/files/0a9bb4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuanlongland.com/upload/files/wopibifok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popmetre.com/news/files/gusagenowofatujeriweler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o-dance.com/upload/files/28343331676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/99254200000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premo.at/userfiles/file/laluwituvavigaregagitoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benhgout.net/uploads/Files/file/mezakabedaziwekipesukumul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spbmworld.com/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/kazelusedazajibel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmaclima.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/petopirekof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhitienvuong.com/uploads/files/tegerawetibik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digilit.ir/basefile/digilitir/files/wolep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scmsgroup.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fenisamosogifirevop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eldorado777.ro/upload/editor/file/lanuwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szamosiszerviz.hu/feltoltott/files/wojit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613732d233786---sutavinawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdsdealers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62890470258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132c91f90e08---67167067885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc010.com/userfiles/file/20210918200204_5zv31l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d91e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD91E 17148 bytes
SHA-256: d7095216abb3cadc594bc1d296f7659a2c968ed4b7070ce70243cdf77363e4f9
font_01_sfnt_off000105b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105B8 10232 bytes
SHA-256: b37cee650b29d6b5ab42f660835fb656704f3539db54adf0a4207a5dd766ebd3
font_02_sfnt_off00011ccf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1