Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b17697ee0e77a06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-30 21:01:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cab63a43f5db23fd065700df75494ffc SHA-1: acf7e46638f30600ce0aa313f1a57916d49b5adc SHA-256: 4b17697ee0e77a0658b6e9e1695b923b1b6a714393840cd45960d4bccacc98e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/9810747329.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://namjapizza.com/app/webroot/files/83658233021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sakirnoopo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1f7827ba0606efb0f477f7f9be7cec2/disok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///zoxokevujurebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9c587e8d1b---zunelotopeduvusi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitsiluet.cz/data/file/katuvigowaladudotejise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairway.cc/images/blog//file/dojem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bainihu.com/upfiles/editor/files/sinal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelihome.ru/upload_picture/92824548824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a959d506736---22193838181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/fagakoliziwibozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibliothequeanglaise.org/upload/files/12976186982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/fejefuduxasafesawonagapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webscape.co.bw/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f2595e7185---16937725112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/85989503039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/32710848274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadeavenue.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee0892151da7e1a926ec50e7bdee167b/lorexapesakeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2greenchicks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8060570eb25738dacbefa2c418a6aa3/32562425927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.truegridpaver.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/227a903d7930077648ac7291e7e6fca8/rotemusapowunufiwolebawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fairtradeportal.pl/userfiles/file/zinotiziwojapasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitacanes.com/uploads/files/14678440348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/84148475823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpt-mh.com/uploads/news/files/wamugijojopefujoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksystems.net/HotelEstimator/userfiles/file/59743652156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=sujet+bac+physique+chimie+terminale+s+corrig%C3%A9+pdf+senegalPDF 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_off0000de4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE4D 11924 bytes
SHA-256: 9378299e00911470c2fbc43ec3997bc1a93f224ec9c6cc65014a941859c3ad0f
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000111c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111C5 18296 bytes
SHA-256: 85c4c746b173c9e809ead0328e04e4a5b5e14b4f446b92301a16efeac162c763