Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8733835f694000e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-23 02:33:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9a7308a54aa2f70db295f4ff1260806c SHA-1: 9c122e93575cafe04d37bc6ab37d7cc073e37eb0 SHA-256: 8733835f694000e8d8289b7cdbaf0f1ff60cb4a60c34556af96df0a88e396c17
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is a phishing trojan. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/kesimosokafujoxurebutotuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.ccs-corporation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nusikerutaxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lussoleathertiles.com/test4/EDITOR/example/v2/userfiles/file/dokunofidizokubuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychamsocda.vn/images/userfiles/file/1519199723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullhousetourism.com/UploadFiles/file/20210904132131194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lf3sdsbkr4bdahhoudnns3v0sc/84183507945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://picassogift.com/Uploadfiles/files/30996731666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eortak.com/img/fck_temp/file/50976955345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grimastone.ru/files/nemevap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siphonicflowmandiri.com/upload/files/nojajofoxexijuforina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bursakaynak.com/userfiles/file/68333175661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tk9q1io8g9giikep3jki0cbgu5/7165082641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abe8faaf81ec897957c40cab510800c6/20851971302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indemo.pl/Image/files/97764968990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miass.realxenon.ru/uploads/files/renagirosutezulijemadarob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/misagamexemorefufuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cgpharma.in/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lazoratozenosore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/817f0453e38b5a3a1650212ca3391ae2/koligitisixute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sailstudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/koxuxesepaluxuwawepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografoenricogiampieri.it/userfiles/files/setisaduze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.com/userfiles/file/sasisesejosopakakarop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://echipamente-scule.ro/userfiles/file/35360232630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iphysiology.ru/upload/91531880324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivelinabozilova.com/userfiles/file/bupupadejojaruxizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briquettemachinery.com/d/files/67907612525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=play+store+not+showing+app+updatesPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB696 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 35ad92fa9380041b0de430917440e5080d0a6b5dd42cefa24c36e98d6a6ddb0a
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFE2 14640 bytes
SHA-256: eaa8117235ad861910f21a454a33a7bb0b05bfda139b700d485bd529f053e1d6
font_02_sfnt_off0000f46c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1