Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 699042221504273a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-08-16 05:48:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 4dba8129903a5bda1b16102e830124d4 SHA-1: e9f06e3ad4a5109edc7d236acbf927df534c3ba4 SHA-256: 699042221504273aee0258d4e1ab04b62906e1a0f1fc1ab44961f4a60f8ad444
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to redirect users to malicious sites. The primary attack pattern involves exploiting user trust through a seemingly legitimate document to facilitate further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=janeway%27s+immunobiology+9th+edition+solution
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m7q0eno9ltci27lbpi1nl0b77m/nugagitepijuxiso.pdf
    • http://lotusromeo.fr/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/47945465893.pdf
    • https://geneolock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/72091274208.pdf
    • http://clarksville.net/wysiwygfiles/file/2595585849.pdf
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608584d5cf4e5---59304566651.pdf
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a46bf0f37aa---17032328715.pdf
    • http://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/tikeka.pdf
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gglqch1rmegsr1rpp10tpk2kf3/ponegitololuj.pdf
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/tonotodaluwivarelimuzu.pdf
    • http://www.loockuniformes.com.br/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074b2b2c57fb---24954115252.pdf
    • http://paolacaone.eu/userfiles/files/72708816081.pdf
    • http://sarahscupcakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160823b83e8351---maxasajuverobor.pdf
    • http://abwvictory.com/uploads/files/verumaregunitesuxonono.pdf
    • http://hanyangsteel.com/files/fckeditor/file/8326571611820716d125.pdf
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9s2gbq7tv21fbpofrsudlhd2m1/daputopizetomidabil.pdf
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/53231505337.pdf
    • https://walkandsmile.com/userfiles/file/17033364447.pdf
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/menariramil.pdf
    • http://for284.org/clients/7/74/7452b259410349f427184d5eaa48bde7/File/3988755251.pdf
    • http://jnnycc.org/userfiles/file/simalisuxaxa.pdf
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/74101482870.pdf
    • http://helder-effect.nl/userfiles/file/virexu.pdf
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ca40f95e92e232f3c0b479ac8206ee5/50742864874.pdf
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/lixutivulopubitilimafu.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e812.bin
b165658cab38fa03a12ec4b1e9a17f274822a2f80a0e0d6b5d56fc04ae330a18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE812 11228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010229.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10229 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a3b.bin
c7f33e5c062f8ff67eb79d16694573e08f0cac2f70c36e51d50f06ea4bb3eb98
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A3B 17412 bytes