Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 868579babed96333…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-09-19 03:17:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 35f5d4fdf4f7c396213e9ba4bcfb6897 SHA-1: 9c5adb874b5a17a0c612ff7732f001b9901e8190 SHA-256: 868579babed963333ef3f18472353e12bb407c7106b4284b1e4c568de0f252c9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute further malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially malicious PDF files hosted on various domains.

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 https://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=descargar+juegos+nintendo+ds+android PDF link annotation
    • http://zzquansu.cn/d/files/zodagorajuwiwavokumajij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgrima.com/files/file/raxuputezufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r10656c6rcuphr86ktf9dr4tg3/wavonexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzgks.com/userfiles/file///xepokevebet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicostradi.eu/userfiles/files/gixozaruji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andana.us/files/files/33708235474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lsp.od.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0pt6ml8mrh1adf181rj6umd4g1/74640537270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oceanflowerhotel.com/uploads/image/files/nipolidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140fca58298f---pevevubobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doanhnghiepvietnam.org/img_duhoc/files/nisegetar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifecontinues.ru/images/files/budok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotte-ppta.com/beta/assets/file/16241334247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homeopathyhk.com/files/49732046005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/98980994129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202109/file/1631596509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mediacast.vn/ckeditor/upload/files/11262039949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://global-brand.net/userfiles/files/nosakeladasiloninipala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viswinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/faliseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://becro-plast.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4fb84dfcb---55123507506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christ-china.com/filespath/files/20210914143521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibisch.org/files/files/73520839329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-9///202191692579923.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_off0000d027.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD027 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e83e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE83E 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 3740d79230b0140af29f126d290b525c01fb64c375fc99d6e723adfa6cbc5121
font_02_sfnt_off000100d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D6 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 3c35a8d4550d6c9d139302fffd8db4d1228b373ea1ce2ddbf9bd328cc19dee69