Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 675219763a168b3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-08-24 16:00:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 58b80e2663b89644436f696dc8c4f24c SHA-1: 4558adca57dd513345dc822cf768122fd2d99de7 SHA-256: 675219763a168b3db2293fe18d046222b45fa3664875341d38136663df462cd7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. ClamAV detected this file as a phishing trojan, and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests the document's purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://arniestribu.com/campannas/file/36365835956.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://feldmann.pl/userfiles/file/94378581988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immodraft.nrw/images/architekten_agentur_images_/file/29627339463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecole.ru/text/images/file/90752815175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharjahcements.com/images/bulk_images/files/posubedef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hermandadperdon.es/userfiles/file/kefinifoxepusilubirazen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngocvietbungalow.com/upload/files/bunovupufuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebelino.ru/userfiles/file/79449301739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhatngudongkinh.com/upload/ckupload/files/xasidifekagizokamoladij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conhantaoankhanh.com/webroot/img/files/jidusofamolufufejidum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/432f07af923a5bef4e254960f97e0264/gexugirabexepuluzora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooobelkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wufimogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7qofbdbljdrfbdnp1feei403b/jikezidinumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ienter.bg/files/xixogijubuwexapuzamekovaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b9f67a323018cbc98e755839e1c07c8/mogasiwugutaron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.guestquesttravelmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7s7uau4udef93ckbesfn9k5at/xugogozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1ba51402a0---13656497959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impeka.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/gabedeminabedupoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makaeximworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b29ba6eaf86---sinipopitalunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vektorma.ru/uploads/assets/file/javozufepunonolulewuwab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090344366b39---58975048822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.protectakoteasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vikup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izdo.org/img/userfiles/files/2116759985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/lobimuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ercrs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lcj3colrbrhbg5d3jh324esfht/kinomujevekosozamenuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=justin+bieber+songs+2020+download+mp3+freePDF 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_off0000f94b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF94B 16816 bytes
SHA-256: 739324b3fd7828eab70884dacdbcec27a0e70256e43eb21f329d9b8c47bb1c45
font_01_sfnt_off0001252d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1252D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013d44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D44 11572 bytes
SHA-256: dd2067f19f740c9a369f8f76614984257e11f8e09f8ef623b5310cb36b177321