Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 703aa59affc9dd0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-09 14:47:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ef64db3ae06dac8dd165dd37c08b0698 SHA-1: db2ef23f9063657436f95e236bb768eb49260eff SHA-256: 703aa59affc9dd0d3d6a1cac1b808b01bea9cec1f2e610e8bd1d3fb0f95e855c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to potentially compromised websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://seltec.io/images/uploads/files/18364134360.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202109091632308399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/rasomak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettoseneca.com/userfiles/files/kixuzamegafalete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613400a16e672---74861819476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn--c1acndkmcarx.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45848770255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpb2i6e0usd73p89q7du1spjg4/xofevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioarchperissinotto.eu/userfiles/files/41883201412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atamergranit.com/userfiles/file/64780639347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ntvietnga.com/upload/files/31223226996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huynhgiabaohotel.com/uploads/FCK/file/55355984401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chameleoncoupons.com/adgprocessing/uploads/files/lelotimenakevovef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mentaplywood.com/images_upload/files/97436854722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nichecnk.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/74635676854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://96stone.ru/userfiles/file/zanijiserifaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seanbittinger.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/kajenerokabukelomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designklasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96614821979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paletydozahrady.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soduxifisamavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posaonakosovu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kofimidonojiwigutaxunop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denkobarbell.com/_upload/files/fejegadofesesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdcorp.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5cmjhs7omlgdkt0t2o363mccdf/42582714472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akemi.ro/hirek/file/48174917051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aledrukujemy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kipud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+bedrock+edition+hacked+clientPDF 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_off0000e390.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE390 17852 bytes
SHA-256: d02dd9699331830862db057d401b72d6e8c48e3a0bf3d5500acd6e346326a905
font_01_sfnt_off0001116e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1116E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012985.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12985 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 647786d63648a3c3ffe35ce15d33cf34e7b12031436fb627a6f7e66840354000