Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7db49d1ade73292a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 10:23:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4d6b0a2ef372453391ea50bef794841d SHA-1: 621ae137ea40174e29dbaa31c292382e49689221 SHA-256: 7db49d1ade73292aa75d01a7da4168495cec4d6e8af2e072daf7b13de553588d
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, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS uploads. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggest a tactic to drive traffic or distribute malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://dorfadvertising.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nidowibar.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/66824444116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/816d0daf9b789e3a50898d09f664d9ff/konaviwogutujewopofilese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pnc21.com/files/fckeditor/file/1379644041614256388a487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/lumewepuvite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613606e90db83---82320842426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irollee.com/userfiles/file/44366777938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coastalholidayproperty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tufalavewerudadepage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petandpuppies.com/userfiles/file/70505657709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thepnguyentran.vn/media/ftp/file/64682096307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitargentina.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mawixazusazijuxafekagade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tartak-monis.pl/tartak/images/file/96082390027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grnca.org/img/files/files/76132226287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tottazo.com/userfiles/file/99493833067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netmode.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/33928650519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tylbm.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/lejawelejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biznesfishki.ru/files/userfiles/files/dujodamokovelanegegikino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seed-hongkong.com/uploads/file/digelanitofidut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhshf.de/File/tivawas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f59eda3c5b---17208124565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tentauto23.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10657932691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=best+level+apps+for+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_off0000e9ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9EA 10612 bytes
SHA-256: e9950771b080ca6fc363de8f7b8ea51fb5b6b0d77f0d32ec31714a3184f22c4d
font_01_sfnt_off00010255.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10255 17180 bytes
SHA-256: 55a43ac25d0e52f5a6eedf859d4740e31e1542b4f064027913da3c61e16f7b38
font_02_sfnt_off00012eae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12EAE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1