Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 809759a649e08d8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2021-09-27 01:11:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 299e0d6e0d631a6d4443e447e5d493fc SHA-1: bc4baa011d1899cdc3085568e8aba0f7d90c983c SHA-256: 809759a649e08d8aced4711f552821424a46ebaa46abd39e82f5b30b1d77e662
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. This suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=texting+apps+for+android+and+iphone PDF link annotation
    • http://aunay-sous-auneau.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tezudutogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabilidadegoncalves.com/fotosempresa/files/55049945301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrfirework.com/images/file/48203793056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medtravel.lv/images/hand_uploaded/files/jenimafexalovujorov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://superchills.com/userfiles/file/46425869196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dycmc.com/DATA/upload/files/202109140415398747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-saty.cz/gais/image/file/witidetasilepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapret-rf.org/web/img/podborky/files/jaraxupewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birsamundapark.in/userfiles/files/70233206067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/vipudupubidigijebawotune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caffepontoni.com/uploads/file/7430390424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atkarisuli.hu/userfiles/file/mimabilojukudegiforuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cb779933a3---63043149934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jasfec.com/imgs/uploads/fujokolurimupoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a880kn1rnaci9ic8764sn9q970/bitoxaxukuvoxasokufes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcot.org/userfiles/file/43220282906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camelliafb.com/uploads/files/202109031527471439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangiyaparishadtoronto.ca/bpt/editor/uploadfiles/mumezemitefapujozidigafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeusjtu.pretty-match.com/upload/files/48231988746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiamelchior.it/images/file/jekasafexilifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anninh247.info/upload/files/96272323916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16150dfd3efa6e---donejezofuru.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_off0000b3c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3C8 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 929dfab2cfc5447837a957638f167fd994a782e6231d35bf25c49a5dcc701031
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC65 18944 bytes
SHA-256: 51336fc5480322989a85872bf4851927b1fb9821404568684d1f78409051a008
font_02_sfnt_off0000fdcf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDCF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1