Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 831605871789ceda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:05:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7b1b79ca3c37dfc7c02eccf2b0b9bd52 SHA-1: 98ab0496ea8ff7c09e7953f6ed9c85127bb55efc SHA-256: 831605871789cedabb322f4ea7fadeb9bedcc68304d4facf8ac112cd6691e21b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://powercleanperu.com/cms_powerclean_2015/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/89396746741.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://taociren.com/upload/file/2109011757214495028gcwg04mhz9a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onderdurdu.com/upload/ckfinder/files/wiluwomujopizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pieseautocomenzi.ro/userfiles/file/82065774511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxikladis.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c00c0ae5f---ditepajamukemoniradazewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photofetimages.com/sexaxuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.derbysignandgraphics.com/uploads/file/nuvojuxil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notar-frings.de/userfiles/file/36070752339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://femagnet.com/upload/edu/article/file/wavepomaxopedakudilan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmavidiyar.com/public/content-images/files/madulixat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/647342686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://henseltech.cz/userfiles/file/98168289691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aashianarealty.com/file/28992888035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayjack.com/upload/files/xupunasajafepup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svsteinfurth.de/radsportfiles/file/68213681059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrs-edu.com/sribati/editor/uploadfiles/wininodivukoloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edv-denk.com/userfiles/file/sozoxuvugegijovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.combatsim.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142262ff0eeb---91393833408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suprizpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/muvujefakereposeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-catamarans.de/res/wysiwyg/file/276147206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/files/27519431041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iqmuseum.mn/uploads/files/pedodutodimivukosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb6fd35bfb---fabakexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/tixov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+move+picture+to+sd+card+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_off0000e120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE120 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f932.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF932 18800 bytes
SHA-256: 74058ce11f73b4c58c6e9ca6ee669a2f4382fd16395f913a7f274653b6925afd
font_02_sfnt_off000129ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129EC 10872 bytes
SHA-256: cc8db4514da832b2fc2e2ac31453c06b8fbfe1e097f256b3f693a9328343116f