Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 684016babefc78a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 15:06:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 85a6cfb7e62dafebc563d721fac2d304 SHA-1: a4078eeef0a6a245539c5df14ec785d6ea0b5488 SHA-256: 684016babefc78a419376bd3cd6689c4288d31ebe0184b2c1081e7cbd61cd0da
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 it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised websites. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm indicators suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://topnotchimports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46858692425.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://feg.vn/uploads/files/95378880338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bustotoronto.com/userfiles/file/51457776694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noihoithanhtuan.com/media/ftp/file/mebofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serendipityorlando.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161291d0e0b24d---rujebumoliwixufiwar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rixaxowivoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/timinededorozajotedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stringquartet.biz/web/images/fck/file/2088222624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fc143eed64---wipugiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/69220928034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://njsolarpower.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/453f461560b920739b5620098b64de81/23876412709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alsumiri.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/49e357a6ef63fa2e1eb8050cfca20951/zusufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesprotia.gr/uploads/file/40719953895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilleyfamilyreunion.com/clients/6/6c/6ce887ac6ce8bbcacf46524318b1f362/File/vubosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaaaad00504---xojomov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekkercoon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8271937451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://too.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b8874d31dedd499a71f597b9877b78d/tudelerizesan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be76aece347---kexeleposevekebozatinopeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loca-granderoue-montaletang.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3194338119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b30ac6ba58---58291199928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbgnfinance.com/userfiles/file/dikozuluminomuzazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shrmivirtual.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8fd0eeee3617d5c34405c9cb347e5f7/66515484905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc6d597da81---kifubidokuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=quadratic+functions+and+equations+unit+test+answersPDF 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_off00010150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10150 20132 bytes
SHA-256: 97a7a19dab789f0d89e388c388aec193ff466a8614bfc3a531099feefc51913f
font_01_sfnt_off00013658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13658 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00014e6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14E6F 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 52a6e1100e15fe1327e76c835fb883e46fd0209382a06b61724f82f6fb67e0f1