Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73c664c9bdd370d3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:46:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 66f5360b1d9c0cdd4346cf9ce56087d4 SHA-1: 4fdbc690f0c236cbfbee52f774a4214b6736ef63 SHA-256: 73c664c9bdd370d344a43ede1f7e1e387cdf6481b9f44b85a2a7009411e6ab8b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically indicating phishing and trojan characteristics. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs, such as http://monikaknoblochova.com/userfiles/file/bopamawomazelavop.pdf and https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1426f8bdbf4408122b504e98de7bb74b/69612082857.pdf, are likely used to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://monikaknoblochova.com/userfiles/file/bopamawomazelavop.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.groupementpecheduloir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43140231341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibextrail.com/editor-images/86628930421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idcla.net/upload/files/77652319463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denda.co.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28483812879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsstore.mx/ckeditor/ckfinder/archivossubidos/files/pejifuziwupez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbolean.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1426f8bdbf4408122b504e98de7bb74b/69612082857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2018.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72496923409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zesirudipejuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://palcev.ru/userfiles/file/32726461529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefoster.com/pliki/nipageruzamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://excitechem.com/userfiles/file/tevoruboruvaxupal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asesoriagade.com/app/webroot/files/files/letikeredegazatanebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johndanton.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/3308309403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alda.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gifunemuzeditulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140c5781c2ee---pozenibewamafanupajada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vimenomugiboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantex.org/tantex/tantexuserfiles/file/nakudadodusubamewamafid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlandpark.com/uploads/files/wigejawojisiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almuhja.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/motumegevomarugexuruvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89e585863fc23fe00999926c5f8bd1ab/17079780853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angarakshaksecurity.com/userfiles/file/70611835358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gadesign52.com/uploads/files/202109101519309923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/soketejamorod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddnepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/rikoninumokubixukap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=super+wallpaper+mi+10t+proPDF 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_off0000c8dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8DC 20072 bytes
SHA-256: 5074d03278c89451a659c9efac738d91ff87b45d8e883379444ea0545f4eff96
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE1E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011635.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11635 10576 bytes
SHA-256: 88dde4ae363957b83e1bafd5d8fc1a40fb31687b55c79cbc49ab1bed809f769b