Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 428e0747ee68448e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-09 09:26:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 53079643e3601042aeb0fd757f3d5d06 SHA-1: 32036af29bde66bd553f312fe17f4f9002d52a01 SHA-256: 428e0747ee68448ede8423c426fd27dd145a32380a5925c8b2de14bd783ed888
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure victims to external sites for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://ttmm.co.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88688582731.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/67892670187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.likoda.com.tw/upload/ckimg/files/tuzasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613960b4cff58---famamewagupojogigiwereve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hidropomp2008.com/uploads/userfiles/file/nuwitunipusisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamgph.com/FCKeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/07044715393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/27063306898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc-am.com.br/Selecao/ckfinder/files/movuvamobuvimewelinek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youkuvpn.com/upload/files/woparug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bortran.com/upload/image/file/20210903010802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchungnguyenlieu.vnpec.xyz/uploads/files/93484925011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1071d5a6a2d7f45eee2c62b7cdf6a1e/pixenogosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolapezzano.it/userfiles/files/21364286865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique-u.biz/images/uploads/file/83600423930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mallarpurnaisuva.org/go/file/23073213105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rorolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/83093486625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139a0ee936b6---18073367844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreevmag.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01626866c7f3ee8a5806231f7b4f3414/kasawebopasulakelan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fence-alarm.com/userfiles/files/buduzoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://22vek-omsk.ru/fck_editor_files/files/lazoridorabuwiwezunoxojin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jshoju1295liutipag149a8fjj/bewekozejatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwnickersonplaza.com/uploads/files/fimufejogiwapalujukemagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=free+my+hero+academia+dubPDF 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_off0000c7e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7E5 21240 bytes
SHA-256: 587c8d3fe2ecfc63608f31212067148542c417917743228d84760059fe9d1977
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117A7 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 83571f192a0af518c608ac6f7cc10651b453550baae0d568f1e49986a017ae94