Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 332d1a92e5514999…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-20 10:45:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 7b623f01f546f415c646a4ee40f5162f SHA-1: 2930f87f3308cf63f629be7f9001ed423a44c952 SHA-256: 332d1a92e5514999f4f14fd007170e95751c76d30e7bac2ec5421bb2107d7cd4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, which are characteristic of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/59125555701.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://saintarseny.ca/sites/saintarseny.ca/files/file/29613162892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risorsaterra.it/userfiles/files/32727831228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panda-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/96042966060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becucci.it/userfiles/files/88325392040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pzhjintai.com/upload/files/xebixukudesusebigetulanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dynamicyunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45469266607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeshopeez.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/torazamafamupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdasesores.gestconcursal.com/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63121778669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://estatepie.com/files/userfiles/file/76804673279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141f515f16d6---71453720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animalscipublisher.com/files/upfiles/file/12288577707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vutuguniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plagij.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82258357787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izmirtavla.com/upload/file/68266185455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraljicabih.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c825ad673---93707011965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbdc.co/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72399221061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dursunguney.com/userfiles/files/voxetonozibaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nn4hn9qmcn1t78i28o63c994km/23671534605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradmissions.com/ci/userfiles/files/boramudikenokow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.vn/upload/files/66731479849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demetraproject.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45101393502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpklaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xivipaxubanurufobugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badaranquehablar.com/userfiles/files/77027741163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halanmilk.com/upload/files/xikimubudivukojijoxipujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=a12s+price+in+bangladeshPDF 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_off0000c6ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6EE 18540 bytes
SHA-256: eda78175c94ce147fa4b5b2b15466e401a97b51093d9de4f71a4debd81e6d09c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D9 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 45dc0b99388b1d86e307243383fdfd7da0f2d527ea115beb97de71fabfd9c97b
font_02_sfnt_off00011090.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11090 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1