Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3991022332243191…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 23:12:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 68cdaac24c67ba4c89b0e15037d8b0e9 SHA-1: 85a67b3514d27345d0aaf20dce4f00091e865555 SHA-256: 39910223322431912e8b22e39903c2e8300539873c3ca959f5af2ea977f12622
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics suggests a deliberate attempt to obscure the final destination and potentially distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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 https://godahoian.com/app/webroot/upload/files/37690149187.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://superpart.com/files/vewapegit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6daca236f4b7edc429f6094749efccd8/vinip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verandapattaya.com/userfiles/files/39084804878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boston.pl/fck_pliki/file/91199358658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sictombbi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapiwivej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riolisboa.com/images/ul_files/file/wKmuRZfgQlBW.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ddd-iasi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161387a562999a---29394149610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ebus.myskoolapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/82055236752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316a40a70a2---tovigafitegopasutevigasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sfipl.in/userfiles/file/sisolefoponulivixanep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telecycling.info/files/file/fovubabixumekudusigejur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/tibobelixivajakudok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aburobocon2019.mnb.mn/uploads/files/kababibof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naveenent.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/gipimikivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwr-tech.ru/userfiles/file/24882726032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134485df066c---88253568404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/45615820583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlicentral.com/images/authors/file/wolozagomugow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/29650272671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketphatthinh.vn/upload/files/jaforinofolafinuzowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://findusafranchise.com/files/files/80971583756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=cool+backgrounds+androidPDF 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_off0000df40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF40 10680 bytes
SHA-256: 174bbc3127b59101af04c628fcb6f81ec91cd156aef658d6fe44074db5232a65
font_01_sfnt_off0000f79b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF79B 17984 bytes
SHA-256: 54ba1dbe22f8344206801ad5f4e99e45c0282fddf6aacb098ea04f7b7455f288
font_02_sfnt_off000126c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126C9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1