Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 283e97f3fe1515da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-20 13:31:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: edff56c59086f6acb320247ba6463045 SHA-1: 0912c019dd17666731e26000002d63d8596e8beb SHA-256: 283e97f3fe1515da149c41c993ceadc4307cfd1e4728ba3d16692f788f11be8c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is a link farm pointing to potentially compromised websites, with one heuristic specifically identifying a compromised CMS upload. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The embedded URLs, despite some being marked benign, contribute to the overall suspicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/43519700119.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.uc-kushiro.net/images/library/File/sugoger.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.libroparlatolions.it/backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6295458614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lienming-rubber.com/uploads/files/202109011120387859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quangcaowebsitecomvn.xemlaco.com/uploads/files/kowubutakinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hebakotb.net/userfiles/file/64985820975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lsphc.com/userfiles/file///62202848449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinwoosmc.com/userfiles/file/1781206991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veaodaibrahma.com/uploads/image/files/36762202093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adfaveo.com/image/files/20210920_161304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anitacalderon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tdjl.com/uploadfile/file///2021091808293373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grossbuch.com/upload/file/38557331986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7ef5e43ce---pigifenofuxakuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pattyn360.com/upload/forum/files/94225768024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dfqf0knh1ojikufua2p6nrf30/ruwijoranunapafutup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/mufaxoxelukewuxuseravujow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://byocamacho.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/podisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krajinar.cz/soubory/files/doxawasuvepuxaduwuduxoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentauto23.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23286299581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.savininkai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fapota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/25463281009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.orthovision-lublin.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jubudononavesojutumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161420d1ff2b63---tuxagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhshf.de/File/xelupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=jesus+songs+malayalam+mp3+free+downloadPDF 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_off0000b43d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB43D 15672 bytes
SHA-256: 74fa3469829ae7e9f52f87d6050b80411b03a7f30779a3a32b16e1e5d8c134b7
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCAD 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 12d710980eebcbc5b8c7b5c01687914c0c6b6659071c8d2a7a9e9396ab31442f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f68b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF68B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1