Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 280c062173d74344…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:51:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f95c1ac79d285b12eaaecc512aac88f4 SHA-1: 2ca882c62dc15b3fc0baedb8759943f291f6f54b SHA-256: 280c062173d74344a265d043866e0c4f277b51919f6950af92a87f70babc03cb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The file's structure and the presence of multiple external URIs strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiguketexeviwiwije.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aqua4you.hu/userfiles/file/92964681014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/towilagawipapitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stihoplet.by/upload/editor/files/34883855478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auditorescr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vimeterifunimuxikeduko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phayaotechno.com/UserFiles/File/zexuzuturomuwukixeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/16150436289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lactopad.com/uploads/files/23445158831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jurabos.nl/include/editor/file/25343662397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://casaalu.com/luutru/files/bikimuzitev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iraneto.com/basefile/iranetocom/files/29958109894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/27617798346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oancora.com/ckfinder/files/16899640560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.traveltimevipp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43cfdf813e69bd1b4c35999bf70b95b6/17929174901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxshop.mn/userfiles/files/fisuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a1897a575f5d8c3648d8120bb4c9c6d/zexalubadipug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietdubai.com/userfiles/file/lugaruxaxotisimudegowid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastrodibaglio.it/userfiles/files/23243514133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bm-shower.com/userfiles/files/kogikujatosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://otdelkamos.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb44bbaac4edff25694478393effc92f/jumakolomugesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haai.org/upload/file/xepikixegakovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411467b4717---87993977717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://misbahelmudii.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17996375980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rovitek.com/userfiles/file/gamogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=la+guerra+de+los+mundos+pdfPDF 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_off00011622.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11622 20312 bytes
SHA-256: c7883b70d073c2ed4bdafcafe5fccdd30f9b0d6c612fcf876ca3f4f13d5140bc
font_01_sfnt_off0001493e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1493E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016155.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16155 10708 bytes
SHA-256: 45060d8fe30ccd9c1cfbe519cc06de4f431c539c53714741576a1b3def52c4c6