Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 709165b1fda50a05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:26:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5727e94c5d72d25b68c697641647769a SHA-1: a04d2505989b0dae0b4ad193a601898006fe45d9 SHA-256: 709165b1fda50a05eba76111d2c53fc7f8339f0acc07d431bc316cad729a7f93
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or phishing. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://nensi.si/upload/file/89144309790.pdf
    • http://audiomaster.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a9fe22e006---21399507050.pdf
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/disinat.pdf
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607470aa76e93---46354333732.pdf
    • http://www.hkqi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e92e514df---titebum.pdf
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/964c5bea11293c966980be20327a4672/84633624397.pdf
    • http://magnachip.cn/userfiles/file/20210512113050.pdf
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cttqsj0ft2t6jouahkef8tug9l/fedole.pdf
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/69274322922.pdf
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a03529c1a1d---vusen.pdf
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609baba242106---51493243103.pdf
    • http://udemadriatic.com/userfiles/files/xukizoz.pdf
    • http://snookerfootball.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608844d704fd3---99427977754.pdf
    • https://www.pfgpartners.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085426537fe7---vinukaseripeboke.pdf
    • https://connect.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b80897cef41a077036086ed9792a883d/96535425700.pdf
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6d8b0a3f314abbcfba364c87c1f1b9cd/figabuwisavuxonulatu.pdf
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/soxonasasokuxiz.pdf
    • https://interesttour.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9cebcc01d46117b1b01205f58a594b25/93453755273.pdf
    • http://dichvugiayphep.net/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/gifererumuwidawebenatof.pdf
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04795df58592f9259a3a99d83460cf42/kakokirapemako.pdf
    • http://primebrokeragetx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35082718215.pdf
    • http://smiletoursvietnam.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nepunixuwab.pdf
    • http://perlawarmii.pl/userfiles/file/46811336533.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=word+problems+involving+conic+sections+circle
    • 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_off0000cce7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCE7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4f9.bin
37706c57da1dd7ffebd5eb1c260c6032e83ca42f6781646ab2b4ef35ea5a4e83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F9 16128 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010e9f.bin
28a4f9db6485ccb93b5fd89a51a3f811d77c7225e3fe3098786bbb8390604ae3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E9F 10896 bytes