Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 768b839e5e61ae1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 04:35:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 57f3db0973f47c0120016dee46d7eabc SHA-1: 9b589d545998cd3caff2288be506cd7622c2185d SHA-256: 768b839e5e61ae1f5e241afb0c9b53b2639cd60e85a6ff8699552736959f613b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially compromised sites suggests a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161336e505a620---75791238234.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ipjanah.ir/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7n8ede1s8i5vkrfkqm5cood484/69840795317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sapsda.com/SapmaUserfiles/file/57241601165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/rewavowigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nut-shell.net/upload/files/8222890503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impeka.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/gagosoxuboliga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///15978923046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomarcheluzzo.it/userfiles/files/91107897120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alwaysshine.com/fileimage/file/84475819766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://npkfertilizerproduction.com/d/files/dalorifufir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dhf-china.com/d/files/25383504012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eastendmediation.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nojaxizobowixukopesiteti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aap0abfiql8h.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85734712271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jechrina.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/87486172329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shibbirs.com/media/files/41127594500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ristovski.mk/public_html/upload/userfiles/file/9759118681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datajournonepal.org/files/gozotomaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tectrongim.com/uploads/file/57850827730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161318bbc6b1a1---12161200135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snapstudios.ca/userfiles/file/59222738328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianenricofabro.com/userfiles/files/jolaxiluvala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guojingmall.com/userfiles/file///17502603458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gartenbaukoeln.de/uploads/files/28804735470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=prison+architect+androidPDF 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_off0000bd43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD43 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 5111b707f36bf6bdb123c4f203b01ece882afeacd0007421002a777f6ee5ad8e
font_01_sfnt_off0000d4d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4D7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000ece9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECE9 16672 bytes
SHA-256: dc2c43e432c21ce3ff93b7a00fcf1ff6495a398931597c621f6cac82e1d5e4fb