Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 414b267954330ce7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 16:32:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 7d35f51bbca8430961c5e14d9941020a SHA-1: 7f26204826ed0d9ba524f6bca55eb0c3e42c331d SHA-256: 414b267954330ce71cf8c39bb5be4a50f926da9be092f4be21ac79e4ecbb9df5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely to distribute further malware or conduct phishing. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://zhongjiukeji.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-8/20210908032829324719.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/simuvopexafowejofiban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1qn2r9do8hm605a40412t2c0oq/70544915860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avstralianature.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46528286447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wonderpanel.com/app/webroot/img/file/xezon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapporomn.com/userfiles/files/luravom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orderleesushi.com/uploads/files/sukajasutifavizepisedabom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carlosfunes.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a1aea7cd3---pakisumodutikiferasesatud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613460709ff91---84851937313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hit-education.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/24pvbi4574hifsslla8fubh5i4/87389673568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podimercrm.com/img/files/47687676115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maraulsan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46588806645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinxinhouseware.com/uploadfile/files/90615466424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hausman.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/62187386267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fractinvest.com/uploads/file/gofosusedamipum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambvetfanini.eu/userfiles/files/32745363276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bongbansaigon.com/uploads/files/5093956943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139db09cf259---vilusaxugare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brukikostka.pl/uploads/page/file/33704490783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarna-zapiekanki.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dezufikawereborukijav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birkhoffhi.com/userfiles/files/sasorerojalurasenuwax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inkfactory.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131445fdecf8---fajifidizibon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pqpqoamg5t5rrt0730bdajdmd7/34015359449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c3cf80fd0f90e6ff11e40313dc5e602/doxudupafikirenebobugabuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=karan+aujla+new+song+download+mp3PDF 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_off0000b6c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6C5 16324 bytes
SHA-256: 0af36dce4e4075e27e1774a8fb168b0c517d1d68065713ee24f257e0c75cf820
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0F2 11024 bytes
SHA-256: ecd72fdcfc7ecd64519e2824ccae64821702279c5ed1004eb39f6cafc3973744
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1