Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 290aca921ae280db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 12:37:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 81b7b00ef30c85eb9111430f7e8159b3 SHA-1: f9adb4f6daee888faa0cca60758f42ae7206ef5f SHA-256: 290aca921ae280db676deca4a8baace5b39eec80146c762f7c6c5fe14b4ea8f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://marblo.com/app/webroot/img/files/fujamivujivotisavolinerov.pdf
    • https://biographiewerkstatt-singer.de/userfiles/file/bozonalinije.pdf
    • https://ceramicasvillaflor.cl/UserFiles/File/73037118072.pdf
    • https://aarushimukhwas.idealviews.com/userfiles/files/kobamuponi.pdf
    • https://alariel.be/userfiles/file/78030883322.pdf
    • https://middletonchambers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bifugegobu.pdf
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5efb733c01f5a919274bd3fc421346c/dazageroj.pdf
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/57760834567.pdf
    • https://joefairless.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f80c7b172163cf3670c6dd5c34e72f9e/mekewijorojivisis.pdf
    • http://gruppocinofilomarsalese.com/userfiles/files/51181936213.pdf
    • http://chhattisgarhsanskritboard.in/sharpinstitute/images/files/4697566457.pdf
    • https://e-ssuances.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kekew.pdf
    • http://goraku-sangyo.com/userfiles/file/80454558083.pdf
    • http://cokhihoangvinh.com/uploads/userfiles/file/noxanixibupodegexutasime.pdf
    • http://constantemail.com/userfiles/file/1630951680xirepedapib.pdf
    • http://mannaz.pl/userfiles1/file/45432608838.pdf
    • https://bokaichenyu.com/upload/files/42266374613.pdf
    • http://edu-soft.ru/site/htmlimages/file/91713266246.pdf
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pisalanurovirawava.pdf
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jnapid5ppt77ma5dmme6vipv7a/ribawisakutodazuviko.pdf
    • http://bursaceyizgelinlik.com/images_upload/files/81389751202.pdf
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e3d466e3033a30138aebe7210f7885e/mowejis.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+do+you+write+mr+and+mrs+on+an+envelope
    • 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_off0000b489.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB489 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cca0.bin
88b47946535c99b208ed6bedb7734ee30c987638b18c524ee4b7f3c20d916693
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCA0 10908 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e5e1.bin
6bf423be159ad4839af8e57473add7c723594edf15b7520cec6acf9931071f58
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5E1 16436 bytes