Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 797d14e6221d101a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 19:09:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 85ab00f61538bb01f1263cffc80748ef SHA-1: 954170bc45578d64346bebf2f6727f7fe8d4c5bc SHA-256: 797d14e6221d101a19c8dd54f4b6e025e03d9d17c34a511728eb7527dde0b5ff
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it contains numerous links to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is used to host these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://888chji.com/userfiles/files/zufunadeduviv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kco.su/userfiles/file/60625919761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halmar.info/userfiles/file/lefibokevasiroxeloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/75557963613f0d64a307e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marthomaiticherukole.com/userfiles/file/poluluvivemaselofuzagubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamwalibais.com/userfiles/file/doxiderasuwudarofovojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://averon.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143746c9c871---88914470858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gemmacapitalgroup.com/foto/file/6129837591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traffictkt.com/viking1/uploads/files/28659349974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ueros.fr/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49806561796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobmeetin.com/media/galleries/files/notuvozifana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hospvetcentral.pt/site/upload/file/xebipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocigliano.com/userfiles/files/80115878352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161361b2b8340f---punagixazafef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kamarkosong.com/contents/files/63944774296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/36945042275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/lojipos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/39c3ba5038ba7af42783d52d8fb9c4c2/jopipeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/sixovazobavetuvilitoror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spy-military-labs.com/userfiles/file/lilafovex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miyagi.chi-kara.net/Upload/files/tujaxijidopavozozoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cradlegold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7t7o0dtg9ivv473ulg034tot7q/22250466067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denprokhorov.ru/images/file/xukoxuxazolaxokagumiwop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martabaktelor.com/contents/files/2475008940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=love+alarm+season+1+episode+1PDF 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_off0000afe8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFE8 14804 bytes
SHA-256: 0f81db74e37067ea34d8bd823f98ef8a54d0d817065c7dc1e65aa9a18e99eb39
font_01_sfnt_off0000d56f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD56F 10532 bytes
SHA-256: d01bea1470d40d887abca9f4155fa3c8138071be47380a8c52a6d42ac95fd550
font_02_sfnt_off0000ed67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED67 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1