Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 417b5fe37c7067f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-10 06:48:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: abc2194fe4d69335776f25bcab786c25 SHA-1: dfd9bf0b21eb773e7faa4c890771ca147bc29223 SHA-256: 417b5fe37c7067f031913cc894189fe177b62d26a1be30ac70ea3c88f8c30cf8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically a phishing trojan. The presence of numerous links, including one hosted on a compromised WordPress site, indicates an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious content.

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 https://camelcarpet.org/d/files/meverafobim.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135163a83262---sizeximis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161334a95832ad---nekutifuzexagigidekozuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/fufodaxonek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatdwellswithin.com/file/19792739694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://risme.vn/files/bijadepetemon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekstelekom.com/userfiles/file/63706113439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatuchlina.cz/upload/file/bidenud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thai-airpark.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27097734558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbfrontedelmare.com/userfiles/files/36712050726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdhouse.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7510312422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/wamavewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hondatayho.top/img-ngocbao/files/35962644212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/bulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bekexejotenirujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturenhuman.com/app/webroot/userfiles/file/sipazamemaferubaviduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanlitech.com/files/files/96020624186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lonerangerfanclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63700455156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ed613cd3d9---91286553995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/17408793074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topenglish.sk/app/webroot/gallery/files/nolozililuzud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofranzoni.eu/userfiles/files/24357635145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jumefuduvavewofoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aslplastic.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25020364402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuduchouse.vn/pics/file/56144127078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=friday+the+13th+game+for+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_off0000db6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f386.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF386 10904 bytes
SHA-256: f09dc1b4da5f5a6f30a9bde66f1dc45109d5f3ce64ca4257749f53158bd8ba84
font_02_sfnt_off00010c66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C66 17444 bytes
SHA-256: 0e1bbac3f01585f5a569c9bf8599260f510e6243e31dd9a2b1c968f97d49293f