Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 391ae978b46e9ce8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-10-12 03:29:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 5a07da8fff4be4f227c255505bd60afb SHA-1: cd8f4d9d4f4fc37e49b98459f157e9ddd301b282 SHA-256: 391ae978b46e9ce8808bbac237d3f00408e7de19dca21e478b9835b97c2e459e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://www.willmarshelter.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23202276161.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jr.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jovalowevure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/9009805774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615d8288072b2---zobunumugopunadutanetev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinruily.com/UploadFile/file/20210910175906173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hongshengfish.com/uploadfiles/20211004/21100408171436888405g23ne6gv67.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abimobiliare.pl/pliki/File/5366680368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pneusmarene.it/images/file/45619887619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/be083a972b09fae4e4be21c690449114/26835182025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matkinhantai.com/luutru/files/72964247042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81419126474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0048b933e83022c4addabb07b7a485cd/duzazojiwilajuranukatepeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenmongdangquang.com/upload/files/vuwugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nk-sostanj.si/files/file/5212297076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/85670505480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://event-connections.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff66669599---20718524591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80adic7alej3d.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/27232241237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinadesigndanang.vn/uploads/image/files/nowutumone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logopeda-empatia.pl/content/file/felibefodakutogote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetplus.com/userfiles/files/12209692387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artasedanasingaraja.com/uploadfck/file/semanikuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/82345055223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatrangpalacehotel.com/app/webroot/upload/files/palipaguverubufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/u-9XGpgKpwY/uplcv?utm_term=meaning+of+ankle+chainPDF 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_off0000b45b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB45B 15336 bytes
SHA-256: 2a6ebdb5ff3adda7a3bc0bf80a2152e3a695cfa33944766d1ecd5589ebab5156
font_01_sfnt_off0000db2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB2C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f343.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF343 10336 bytes
SHA-256: dc0cb2f90d5b8a371edf65b84eee9cf092153aeb0207a1a856d47e6f6e667ba0