Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 291afdde07fe4cdf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 15:36:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 98bb43e9aa010fa8d6e9f6ea201a7091 SHA-1: bbfc9ca70db3c74f396424e8344d7956ffa82db4 SHA-256: 291afdde07fe4cdfb1446dceb642d101501f739274dcc71fb7aed417f3038cef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm and a ML classifier flagged it as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The file's purpose appears to be directing users to external malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/wigoziturenagibulonudegin.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://activepymes.com/pub/file/75253272084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aragonemprendedor.com/userfiles/files/tixopav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sro52.ru/uploads/files/82775127737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turbotechnik24.de/userfiles/file/lasanapupijepigurotuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://careerroots.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8328964945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b174e73008---62752529803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivo-mebel.ru/upload/file/tebikivadatenipizeginurem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-rentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134bf1d8864c---44928042511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zrdb-drogbud.pl/Upload/file/9473904326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paitoonbox.com/userfiles/files/wimogudoribidog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135cb74751cf---bidifoxorofebivivamejepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1601a9ff2d8660e117fea981d97c2e2c/jopizokaxofinisorewun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venusnvs.com/userfiles/file/vonemogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.sg/images/users/00000000/files/fonaxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaku3c.tw/uploads/files/202109030401078452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jimsclub.net/new/board/img_tinfo/file/20210901110949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tidomusica.com/uploads/files/202109020800533537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dolnoslaskialarmsmogowy.pl/imgturysta/files/35272603425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obkladacstvikolar.com/content/38184643723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polaryachts.com/res/wysiwyg/file/wijovaranusulutedalolak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boyanbolyarski.com/userfiles/file/todeleketepulosuvuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.globalnautique.nl/upload/files/femuwizuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sssmri.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67814677040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=sonic+the+hedgehog+2+unblockedPDF 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_off0000cb43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB43 10744 bytes
SHA-256: a3e91a613f32eb9ad1a97265ea51d2cf7b08334fe43e87dd2809bada8a4e1aa3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B8 18368 bytes
SHA-256: fdc3b71b0be6b85f9904020bbab7033aee013e589f5d15862694577cc93d894b
font_02_sfnt_off000113e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113E5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1