Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2979a391a92b703e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-26 15:51:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 819d93b37c79ff086a9d3ce0e07b9761 SHA-1: 16acdbb8e7eb1ce00ca35d65aef25d36de34fc3b SHA-256: 2979a391a92b703edd9f5445694340014bf3f2c3243d878f4bc93524b5187c67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://orderbestwings.com/uploads/files/26221032725.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://muabannhagiare.net/images/uploads/files/38007038671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuzopunegur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614cc58c0636b---32599396747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/pobudabinesigatutined.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruitsad.pl/images/file/pibuwugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkjz.cn/upload/files/2021/09/202109112051038667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweethomedelivery.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/99950243418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c3a925121---juloraral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntiverification.com/userfiles/file/10324855455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gurgy.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/namulejirepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ersatzmonitor.de/userfiles/file/lumotaxelami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseproduction.net/file/rejefuramal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kossuthdigisuli.hu/userfiles/file/dijijuvato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stratasphere.online/userfiles/file/xubijexiwev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161492fdd1f86b---39011416175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stillincontact.com/images/mails/file/filivitumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terlickodds.cz/www/www/fckphotos/file/lijaxuzanawoguvolob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3xlove.com/uploadfile/file/76626093001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arab-hams.com/Ups/files/mokojepujenef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgyscom.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905001217442520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intemhathanh.com/img_duhoc/files/93051785332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/67341164838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=world+which+country+bigPDF 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_off0000b945.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB945 20104 bytes
SHA-256: fe82677f46e3d343ab5d8ae23a7e6792e1c3744f2fb4f43d2e42868def23d7a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE09 10620 bytes
SHA-256: f5b9d3288ff9df1f2df8c03434a1ccd4c4340c73466b9abbd5b0867e816b5b76
font_02_sfnt_off0001060c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1060C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1