Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 474554e9669083da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:27:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 40cbf44576579affbad6144db591ee42 SHA-1: 9ab9b520d3978012ce73cab748c8d942ce3f1a68 SHA-256: 474554e9669083daab1a84bb6110d7812a673687bb0360c3e39b09c438dc50a7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The presence of a QR code lure further supports a phishing or social engineering attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://blfimmobiliare.com/userfiles/files/vakilil.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mar3ol.com/Files/files/jemuxaraxuwapinubug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dr.schure.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lunilomevovodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirai-kankyo.com/userfiles/files/30337778205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nscenter.cn/upload/files/rexoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98b94056e3df40bfbf567865ac975d53/83538559890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144b7f9a9438---xaxoboxej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rts-wm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38092795655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logistiekverbeteren.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xalipizokavov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angelojrobles.com/admin_initial_test/userfiles/file/keseviresekoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelseafarm.com/kweb/ckfinder/userfiles/files/teronebajuwuxuxovidikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatsah.com/webroot/img/files/10034140658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yunnanyingxiang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bisitukowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhavanarayanaswamy.org/userfiles/file/21049997836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ytdrive.com/CKEdit/upload/files/77398902417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddb01044d61c842900ec86bad1b66d69/dudojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/bejurujipidurogunigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8b78eb7f4---redovoxufoxuwogobijirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitparaguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45422281000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143677c29e69---surilovufaguka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fuchingrading.com/upload/file/94865997890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eventaipei.com/upload/files/74392125481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o2opr.co/userfiles/files/49479154492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nstoplana.rs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rumazogipiletefabarorobez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161429acd1aa4d---rarek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents/files/64757009148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=genshin+impact+apk+full+downloadPDF 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_off0000d4ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ecfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFE 17216 bytes
SHA-256: f488b19038ccaf0753766d9371ee14be0ec2e645fedd30623995491a4c5553ed
font_02_sfnt_off000119d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119D5 11104 bytes
SHA-256: 23d9b6e9efaa13f13eef8f4a26f2ffc48f0cc1605ac55258ee396ffb72e285e3