Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 873f836eeeed9746…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-09-18 18:43:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 0036576a1d3fa0861d791115d752c4a9 SHA-1: 32dcd929de8cd7cfcaa8b663478edeacb2de2590 SHA-256: 873f836eeeed97463f827dd363261d0cb4da4bfe23bd5ba487eec94af07a36f9
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable domains, designed to redirect users to other malicious PDFs. The presence of embedded URLs and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0trvuvu01lo7v80q7cm7kakpip/bogadaxekagasexusurati.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://capital-publishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pifukogejajulusojiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbjcazdrhzgiddbbcsg4l.xn--p1ai/pict/file/ruzezowelaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copacndg.com/images/uploads/files/zirixuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ukrfirework.com/images/file/94618915910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wordtmann.beckbauer.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70535180276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarantogel2.com/contents/files/votekeder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kattliv.com/kattliv/admin/userfiles/file/pitubodedibimazekos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masterref.ru/editorfiles/file/namopesegaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/6036765905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drapikowski.pl/uploaded/fck_files/file/rijideranuwovezij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palmdale.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/rubegetedaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomclarkvoiceovers.com/userfiles/files/57207639268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/takowidezenunesenetop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hongdung.vn/ckeditor/images/files/futewefamedukemogeneme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zonazero.es/userfiles/file/18434928767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietnam-intraco.com/webroot/img/files/jivekuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuresi-kaitori.com/upload/content_pic/files/68206707091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consoles-a-gagner.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/miwavamakuludivuzakeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a505bba7a---fopiremoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.louthadventures.ie/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613425494e2c5---61230803924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaitofu.com/image/upload/File/nojowomimazopidano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chatyzvule.cz/uploads/77440744068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=avg+android+app+performance+reportPDF 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_off0000b8f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8F9 17448 bytes
SHA-256: df38d06866107523f76c3ce2b0135ee78c37d56de7728e0fd957a9a9c99c8742
font_01_sfnt_off0000e660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE660 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE77 10796 bytes
SHA-256: d081ee6d9fe84cd161cc458238ebbc00bde782fb2fdfd69fbe363d079d6fe9a4