Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 520e303dd24c84ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 14:20:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 982833c412745bfb5018157c7f867d36 SHA-1: eb482727e0734663719dbd05944aca3b0af79e47 SHA-256: 520e303dd24c84ae8a36cc91745b068798c83bce5b8130a4f66aeed5d05a1313
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points to an attempt to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://ldoris.com/upfile/files/20210908152822.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://travelport.pl/userfiles/file/zezukurizuvomotuwafeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mk-sito.it/uploads/file/totokitipupaxutedumenemof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b4ae56e1a46cbac6a985ab63c154b052/34399508410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-ural.com/uploads/files/16306037728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bitree.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57641780901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/serafapit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bfr-bialapodlaska.pl/userfiles/file/gusujab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://old.bgk-meshkova.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46613857163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://actionelectric.pt/www/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161352763962d6---bavodusetawitozugimetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theheavent.com/userfiles/files/68487026974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foodchemsino.com/d/files/77574668530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesnek-vysocina.cz/UserFiles/File/mekimuduxuwuperufoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wizzfizz.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17727329140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infotechloyalty.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/57465027335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links-europe.com/images/blog/file/97590457483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cb496af1c20cbd1961287376dad44c6/94014810618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://propack-th.com/image/upload/File/relixililujosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kwong-cheong.com/userfiles/jusejazowedebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautybybelief.com/admin/images/file/malimevusiso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ageofwonders.buka.ru/sadm_files/vivemaxotapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxdyzs.com/userfiles/files/bivipumaweborelipemune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137ab7633050---melumugila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=tekken+4+game+apkPDF 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_off0000d828.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD828 10104 bytes
SHA-256: cc9c3778fb6580331a1cc18f2ef63e2f09592de563781df23e095f8d9634feb1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeb3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB3 18156 bytes
SHA-256: 3d68a2c3760e7fdb2c5405af1b1ad8f46859474673db0df9b63d3a85b458f10a
font_02_sfnt_off00011d7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D7B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1