Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 381365a11a7f7cc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 00:07:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: ac2569c1dd8f1e55543888447f157835 SHA-1: 8486507bd50c74343cd927ca9d4e8e6c71d15fba SHA-256: 381365a11a7f7cc10d555b3ac842f95f53601e4895b63c38fcc3720247318d54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting further supports its role in distributing malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://tv-kitchen.ru/files/files/12110176392.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tourgrodno.by/images/content/file/91216935583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.next-conseil.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410eebb6fe2---38331690339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161397dcb09d9f---foxugoxaniradubizefuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mp2020.csysadmin.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/simifetiguwizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/jiwosud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginniglobal.com/uploads/file/masijenufamijizajaxawat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solener.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87677177280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvuketoansg.com/luutru/files/wivokiximotawolovir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nicemexico.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410e2c857c3---dodiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/39242791489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleinschadenexperte.de/userfiles/file/24665707499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emekyesiltepe.net/images_upload/files/putazagipidukajamofekivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serramentisiciliano.it/userfiles/files/zuzerujoxivixegejonosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ssteelelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/73930769882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vandiestbrandstoffen.be/uploads/files/28852798455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnnc.vn/img-hdmedia/files/99008129760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-zheleznodorozhnyi.ru/upload_picture/file/30060821027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealand-pptc.com/userfiles/file/zikavadape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denis-lefebvre-services.com/fichiers/file/wunakovozegegixijogamol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410d6b539ca---83832637828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d389724d00d96761cf9d9c85cc851ab5/96323908727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henzefashion.com/userfiles/file/71057722579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/32801916764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=psp+iso+gta+5PDF 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_off0000c683.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC683 17408 bytes
SHA-256: 12ee23f27965c09303ebb08c2da48bd75616a2f90db09bd524c24f10356ec54e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF402 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010c19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C19 10180 bytes
SHA-256: e56b3353125736d37a722bab369caa06e3c628cb81bc48821176a5c1b2887650