Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 695b5a031d4f4c5d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 17:14:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4372929d83004a4ad3bab54db33e460d SHA-1: b1bd6eb0b7b6d6cf62e28434333be62b5472327c SHA-256: 695b5a031d4f4c5d74ea874aee3f74d69b60d06e961cc1b33723ea64d01ca265
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure, but the overall structure and URL analysis strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://hongpakthai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91478592373.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asiadomainstore.com/userfiles/file/lalezakaredoxugavegazaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/24477691693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longchimvac.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/92470305395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ntc-container.com/upload/files/6699236227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34773066973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azstorestudio.com/uploads/files/bigil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biorenta.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37144143957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wittlich-luexem.de/userfiles/file/xuwiretirok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140580f9a4ae---pizepikodasakitonav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukwoodrecycling.com/userfiles/files/82189535211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euroquimicadistribucion.com/zabaleta/data/imagenes_contenidos/file/zevolesuzeluxobotigipexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e8c9834af631b1950e39a01ccc6605f/66364087605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezgoe.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diwasixuzif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tradingphrases.com/userfiles/files/2553586658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nprofit.hk/userfiles/11016599327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnmanagementsolutions.in/uploads/vodisifaranoronekada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svs-pm.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614598d96e3f9---25962837894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161473935be4b5---51515252222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgocsm.in/userfiles/file/6238025429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinmexindia.com/uploads/danifewuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotararicedo.ro/files/files/57651639062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.com/Images_upload/files/fijerowevobakisijavaviva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogomanhnghia.com/uploads/files/64772595240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=antivirus+mod+apk+2020PDF 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_off0000c102.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC102 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD919 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 5a4c6eacba78122bcbd6ed429bb96576cbedc1e96ff96102048d38453562a54f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f244.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF244 16220 bytes
SHA-256: 4441c1dce23b03b126c3ee3ba412d5455f7354d2aa96541111031206f69f15be