Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4097c16a9f3df54a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 07:44:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 397e37c73b4c98751a9e2edd839b1ca0 SHA-1: a7eee865736f56bb8b65a17e37995320c752d387 SHA-256: 4097c16a9f3df54a3404916ecc6e478782f1b1aebf8067e5e997843ffd49dc27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. These links are likely intended to lure users to phishing sites or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9946

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://yossy.biz/userfiles/file/23471286303.pdf
    • https://rhagro.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45550312ccc9ce33561346b8c4e08b2f/22071797027.pdf
    • https://medprobr.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22d2a55b4cccff5452913f0a56ec1e05/takukugonuwolajutuj.pdf
    • http://alexandraharris.com/clients/36054/File/xijuripim.pdf
    • http://cn-polylysine.com/d/files/15188519231.pdf
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5fe5536a29---25399461897.pdf
    • http://emke.hu/uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/golajadovekomonodaz.pdf
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d5c0904ad8---21095554424.pdf
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dbb4c1b94c---98698898265.pdf
    • https://shotclock.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd92f5d11078676412f1fb4bd2b8c866/tozozaweresodaj.pdf
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/daguzopoterotixafi.pdf
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56f893d758---pozeruzebodevirofikikuf.pdf
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45fa7d9aeb30b5af25a6a7586bd46912/lulubusapapigixukupil.pdf
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c09f3d0fb6---gobotakepod.pdf
    • http://robertoantoniz.com/resources/original/file/xorud.pdf
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b9a599caf0---zokugijomedarurojurotifu.pdf
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee91e0f0cbeb49b15248a96c0b1761d5/16610064256.pdf
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/613e6d3e55859b097db5b5933c33d016/duxibifiwe.pdf
    • http://hookmyweddingup.net/clients/73542/File/23982838911.pdf
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/27577483465.pdf
    • https://cleanenergy.mn/uploads/files/40031480020.pdf
    • https://cecprint.com/images/file/tadidamib.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=fate+stay+night+fighting+game
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb11.bin
f22358cee8b66ec1fa18a01e37a5eac9bc55df7392a52a709417d24641a4de44
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB11 19364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011c72.bin
b2796b4549c3abdbff7fa8f7f3930eddb9d04fe331d6b9726c0d220c9f3fdf2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C72 10488 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013419.bin
5221cc56e96b657ff7c15f49bf1fbf1b5222e15cd7ffd769ce953162a3e53832
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13419 2064 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00013d58.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D58 16792 bytes