Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 873e06ea958bba60…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 11:21:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7fb4abfe13b6f29bbcc8bee51b0e64a0 SHA-1: 255bb38d1a44bc24d7faa29b54584a44778c10b3 SHA-256: 873e06ea958bba60d3b12eccedbfb172abae1c99a5af6fc98f5df1ff27b91e88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on domains identified as disposable or potentially compromised, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://homelife-superstars.com/image/files/2854926163.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://vadihosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/xedeserivuxifunirojig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atraba-holding.com/userfiles/file/79896339441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoaisonland.vn/upload/files/63059602159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinniescustoms.com/userfiles/files/75271910367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607402fd67498---37739088047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6e230b1df8---50617495859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelritariccione.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160804e0c021d0---14857961716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legouic-peinture.fr/userfiles/file/6358084079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofranzoni.eu/userfiles/files/labaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021052615015093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fc2fa9d504dfcb5f09c16fa83dde434/29431903568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f2214d7c032---maduzovusoguwowifudoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a70esl4s78p1fc0pgk5rdv7cs9/28769895109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanda-commerce.hr/userfiles/file/842330742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jensbrode.de/files/file/kujawegezitotavekosekum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/kegir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b897ec16f9---54350142370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7874569006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agcslohian.com/userfiles/file/41118699609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/novadorexoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ulv-fogger.es/d/files/wibuvasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/fupowaxifosovuvinelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rustproofingottawa.com/userfiles/file/87091415775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mptdp06622tlek73oudchrchgg/jogewujolemikosuxanem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=acid+base+and+salt+assignment+pdfPDF 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_off0000d666.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD666 17884 bytes
SHA-256: 58bc5aa775fe05e701593af043c8d9a238c7293611b5aeb51578b34ae553e735
font_01_sfnt_off000104d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104D1 10864 bytes
SHA-256: d9afbca64e6f26e3a2394fff3f6456111df42c922670a91e3195159a9a03b8c7
font_02_sfnt_off00011d83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1