Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 861d39645af42131…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-11 14:13:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 28e55272265bbca37d57f7deac774528 SHA-1: f254fa6b5292445f0eba3616e2d3a755ffec2c96 SHA-256: 861d39645af42131ded50fb64f01e416306c9bf7dde3b0a8875b368f0fb3abef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to malicious content, likely phishing sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=american+idol+putlocker PDF link annotation
    • http://phanmemerp.vn/attachment/files/mejibalidam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speculatio.in/ci/userfiles/files/84130879511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netwindowvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/defelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134309a4379e---30776973904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ibliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/keworawulirone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gegeny.hu/uploads/file/63885152559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66979464865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/45919851321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f949674b2e---96126535199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/segapesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/wanexika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiozoppini.com/userfiles/files/bunabonukatukowozirop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erpsamik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61481624520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungafilm.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87324607662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palmdale.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/jorurusofagetiremukoreken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369e3d2346e---terufoxosali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paulgraphics.paulsfashion.in/files/sitopozipavofivawaravi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manajrgvaaradhi.com/cms-uploads/files/popag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtracauto.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f89d1ba9da---16024168535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maydemtienvn.com/upload/files/zifosusuluzufafub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66369267230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://philly.drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/93967742918.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_off0000d9ee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9EE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f205.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF205 10680 bytes
SHA-256: d05d5e51eec43f87c1af0c42afefaa483e2c43b50e4d7e5da210e4081a0e2d8b
font_02_sfnt_off00010a72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A72 19548 bytes
SHA-256: 6e4de2c5e903a97dea1bc7fcb095ae49d48f994c864cc4ffed34efb897ad5bd8