Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 473090d40a6e3108…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:32:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7fed285830074b2af752b6e63d3f9c48 SHA-1: b131126fe8d166e4bdda82632cc90adbc4e933f2 SHA-256: 473090d40a6e3108b7e40857f82a07a521166d3f62d1b18b831d812383e17d39
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or link farms. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or directing users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics and compromised CMS upload links further supports a phishing or redirection attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://omatsuri.kr/data/userfiles/files/19917737838.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.wcd.com.tw/ezadmin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nasuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021090916043180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cifphosteleriayturismo.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zedabosejakowoguleverixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuhao-tech.com/userfiles/file/sosagalojewinul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/18564642159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maderas-navarro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83610092344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nic-irq.com/userfiles/files/92133793079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sunarchegypt.com/userfiles/file/wibinogatumov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4els.ru/uploads/images/files/pokigiwaxakiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leylasuren.com/images/userfiles/imagefile/zesawenekovelilefalus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-warszawa.pl/pliki/file/gumodusodudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beldapin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/14505439981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410e84177e1---nowuteduxebufojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turbooto.vn/upload/files/8393801769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siposferenc.hu/html/palimufagukef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tetikigirexazume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abcoegypt.com/userfiles/files/xujuwagiwowobejas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/32027056396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users/file/dovavoliwezavinavofexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrixx.lu/images/wusoxebinewaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141649fced46---30412904988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://billard-hauri.ch/userfiles/file/32297323939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613791167adc4---46552983265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/todinovugabuganaxawafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palakkadtourism.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufabutema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=miner+coc+wikiPDF 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_off0000e660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE660 20028 bytes
SHA-256: 3e3ecd3494d17ddc0f62373573836cbb0599639f44c56fd9dec4c0e052f53796
font_01_sfnt_off00011b9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B9B 9920 bytes
SHA-256: c43e6d964bd48bc4a7015fc9202d8753faf602eeb2439b95d7834c83af78d534
font_02_sfnt_off000131ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1