Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 801193123919969b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:44:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: ab6b732bfbc31e8ac227b2d92a9f25d5 SHA-1: 3ed1c64b6f715b8e521fd69f9c06231ce52dd28e SHA-256: 801193123919969b829213e5aacc10c9b13ce144e6a6d8758897218d7581c24b
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, evidenced by numerous links pointing to external resources. Several heuristics indicate these links are hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://kleinschadenexpert.com/userfiles/file/texuw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vindindex.nl/images/uploads/bujemekogafabudaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jancsoalapitvany.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gipurekamuvowiponotunuwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6106a7ca81c708cea4b77f5a53a9c99b/99528638011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuderprogettazione.it/userfiles/files/47064652514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.le-domaine-de-hauterive.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/neribad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://threadworx.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/nivubekomaxipodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baptistfriends.org/media/85262484501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161422a79c46d7---84205433948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huzatfokozo.hu/editor_up/76914636747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegmsbihta.in/userfiles/file/duwabanibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viviapalermo.com/userfiles/files/fugedeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extrastyle.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64231189489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qwert5.com/psum/admin/userfiles/file/55826769323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozlovka.mebel18.com/uploads/files/90693066898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kahounova.cz/userfiles/file/zaredemisofuvalopepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianowka.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dapiwoleninepuxude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161418af23a8a5---98993213636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superiorservicesandsolutionsfl.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/jajaxijivadafufigodekeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-st.nl/bestanden/files/jewogobolorutoziboka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szkolaprywatnaleszno.pl/userfiles/file/47453838178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=zzsunset+fifa+16PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d9d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9D0 10284 bytes
SHA-256: 666eef0efb84158023a18f38e672bbd93cc47ad249f58f3d9719a36ff47f8a26
font_01_sfnt_off0000f138.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF138 21436 bytes
SHA-256: f7b0fb4a1177203f5fdcef50afd88bb3ed99968edc507eef71e43720bad03631
font_02_sfnt_off00012958.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12958 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off00014169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14169 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 64af0185a2beffa7382febdf957b2ddd2015d3985e5bc97cf8ad64f3c2914973