Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 863ec5cf722cc68e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 21:30:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b8de3cb53b3d1ef951dd853f43691970 SHA-1: 0949db79babd89dc07ed761cbe04cc05094ac0a5 SHA-256: 863ec5cf722cc68e59a0175c3f89cc4505bf31bc91281e0ad0955f56b80f2114
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically identifies this pattern, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+service+centre+parramatta PDF link annotation
    • http://195exim.com/datas/files/lusekajatiloserura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamnonsaokhue.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/68704646392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lapenya.cat/imgjovesnaves/file/18221374394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novinfasteners.com/userfiles/file/68974951321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6uig3f7god5ga1teot3f4qv9tg/suvavinezudazonaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alessandrobelleseveterinario.eu/userfiles/files/16919895922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupoaccs.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zixamewoleselo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pianotuningdarwin.com/userfiles/files/92294653077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brkvinc.com/userfiles/file/janoliwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahjygjg.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912130521639152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdwy028.com/uploadfile/file/20210909132734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tahitotfalu.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/juboripelerozivapiwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161426010e8989---21843464461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f1a559dea5a75610472ca4de75f02dd/3971040673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poldercuptrofee.nl/site/admin/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/goforufitilaferebawisabem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usairsprings.com/userfiles/file/jenexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobilieninvestors.org/userfiles/file/bolijiwobewizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knx-shop.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/livik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayanchem.com/d/files/53937877806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fond.ru/userfiles/file/pagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ramenhajimetustin.com/uploads/files/81026964381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szcftz.com/upload/34946029872.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_off0000db78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB78 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 3969ecd54d41d5800aee141e0296c3abc0bd3fc4015944a6bc80d4334b5a32b7
font_01_sfnt_off0000f450.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF450 17924 bytes
SHA-256: 06b4e3bfe20c5d0b10d8b985912eda55a518a0d77f23220e5807fac697f4d4aa
font_02_sfnt_off00012342.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12342 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1