Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 862b961855829d64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-09-21 15:53:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d47df3753525e034bebe2395ee3b67e2 SHA-1: a5ac2e376dc7f7020fd6dd694c9cba3bb1ceceb5 SHA-256: 862b961855829d64ba2e785abcd2c2c4d9d040280b6626634d835a64777ac4cf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting. These links likely serve to redirect users to malicious sites for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=real+cricket+21+game+download+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e4ii1bi6d5maj4190o4g223vnd31h80h/97228261379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimumquestsolutions.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pofirefozenoniliwoliwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wtmongolia.com/materials/file/31730015554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/rolipepena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yenhuy.vn/upload/files/49420340675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proreferee.ru/uploads/ckfinder/files/19887953893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotosvatba.net/userfiles/file/josem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/xedevowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mahanakhon.pacedev.com/ckupload/files/41977162367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jpind.pl/userfiles/file/xakugigokinorowupewogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/gokujejefixapexumizutoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoongnau.com/upload/files/jizipotubavudadodebebin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braghieriarchitettura.com/userfiles/files/67705982405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrukn.co/userfiles/files/13885573757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likuidart.com/files/ckeditor/files/8306767325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1aeaf281c50c3eba00c89f5472eef58/lakudavolej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/dikimogazorasaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hailiaquatic.com/UploadFiles/file/vidatufilonagadugasafal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.budgetskemaet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355efb848c2---wogulovuzefigaduwixera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.net/images/blog/file/pulumupirejudetuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25551944538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phunhai.net/upload/files/novepifexeguvigin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailitara.lt/bites/uploads/file/sawokarisoleliriwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents/files/nizagivuxabitabixugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingkady.com/uploadfile/files/dilebiberoremoxujadupo.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_off0000dd88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f59a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59A 17052 bytes
SHA-256: 8d3c501f21638ad2aaa13184e2d1f277ae13611be2be1019cc23a099a589e44b
font_02_sfnt_off0001216e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1216E 11084 bytes
SHA-256: 0d216b53c7a69d6402905b8dff03ce932bc85e1ccb97c334c0d6bffcb725a6ae

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