Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c80948af0289533…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:20:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: e15ef515a7a6eec5ccb686b609cee428 SHA-1: c0483f85fc30b94c9ab3b99d46ab3d3eaee42329 SHA-256: 7c80948af028953315dccece3616e1518487749b43ac5214e8ec74a18a512c12
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and ML classification further supports its malicious nature. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristic firings indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+survey+to+go+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://rexant.by/upload/editor/files/pejit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kcss.hu/korosi/userfiles/file/juwameniwukufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/rizipotebolenisunub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izr.fr/files/99014959490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhquan-group.com/upload/ck/files/26639866708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/96284639206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/userfiles/files/94537868356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halongwave.com/userfiles/file/52366971385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vgi-vn.vn/app/webroot/img/files/67886618634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicabg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/mededasudukubej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habrit.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50511696324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.me.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210902_075330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sz-nuoyi.com/Upload/file/2021090800040171333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vip-cond.ru/userfiles/file/16549422646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/97398817250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wyadonline.com/userfiles/file/95572131551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quetthe.com/upload/files/karotavuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morethancars.eu/uploads/edytor/file/6162675574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f8323696aa---ninod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/kupimufofudixalatun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brcassociati.com/userfiles/files/41598008150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qiangka.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rozomofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138969a78c05---19313054267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://queuemanagementsystems.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132616fd6581---litufupiwozeferakapured.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE714 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF26 19164 bytes
SHA-256: 50081fb4015585c0d52a53c93cf9f3bb7e64d6432a56b7aa2dba9688625def33
font_02_sfnt_off0001305e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1305E 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 944b2fb84de7ecc0b2351d9eb43fecb6510cecdc3566492c05c6dc4f812e772d