Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 843662540a5812f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 17:03:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c305004222c525df3b62583b6d0864d8 SHA-1: 9f05b76bc6355fe7324da006f01f5113a3bf4420 SHA-256: 843662540a5812f0af117ecc6d4ab282b417379cf7df30962706d0fab6b4f23b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link farm, as indicated by multiple heuristics including 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM'. These links likely serve to redirect users to potentially malicious websites or for SEO manipulation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://myrbacken.se/login/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faxokarofax.pdf
    • https://rajatotogroup3.com/contents/files/37508793148.pdf
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9a96f0537---famanavoseripidazite.pdf
    • https://tsafar.ir/basefile/tsafarir/files/38946028099.pdf
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346766db567---najimimuduva.pdf
    • https://lecourbe.dk/userfiles/file/norofiwutasapokujifagewuf.pdf
    • https://femagnet.com/upload/edu/article/file/33770842153.pdf
    • http://topoint.net/userfiles/fckFile/20210907123210.pdf
    • http://chelseacarpet.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/54505479590.pdf
    • https://ventadeterrenosurbanos.com/userfiles/file/powanakofisalezozikomo.pdf
    • http://managhantasala.net/mailuserfiles/file/noxokabufejutalovuret.pdf
    • https://sharmtocairo.com/userfiles/files/72997025325.pdf
    • http://qdxqw.com/uploadfile/file/gosakopetatixawesil.pdf
    • http://xedaphcm.com/luutru/files/50207758093.pdf
    • http://jsushibrea.com/uploads/files/devukuloneve.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139972ea38c4---34674963817.pdf
    • http://eg-connect.com/uploads/editorfiles/file///gozijoluvakubezuguboweg.pdf
    • http://www.eflox.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b50cc6cb21---welise.pdf
    • http://beerskiboot.com/img/upload/file/69482352078.pdf
    • http://dakov.hu/_user/file/rukibil.pdf
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130fd7c1782a---7099812735.pdf
    • http://stepasidemedical.ie/images/uploads/file/8301517847.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+android+secret+codes+and+hacks
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d848.bin
5ab0bf4ceb35dcb5ea727a12d95e13ee03c23e36de4b3d8fcb2745b4fb1f21e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD848 18392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000107bc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107BC 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011fd3.bin
2f730e55c507478ac6ae5f35bfdcfc256a31d3ec0c6f6e8fda3ce50f9f52bd8b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD3 11040 bytes