Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 874533a1ca23b795…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 08:59:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 4e5fe31c3100b37bd7695725d0b1fd21 SHA-1: c9ccf8acd986b77b9c314200f0ba739fa0f37741 SHA-256: 874533a1ca23b795685fdd048a053d0777eb802defb54c0867d1245ffea27f0f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with several URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to potentially harmful websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138c7b2c91dd---93265125049.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7de5c854c2163efd25dcb0e56a726993/zivofererekuninelugutufow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gaongonmaiphuong.vn/webroot/img/files/pagulemajafisiwexajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/45805049234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/40288769250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qapoll.com/2015/vat/upload/files/riluna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ottuk-e.org/userData/board/file/9386798824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emailreceptionist.net/userfiles/file/69806621163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanzmendia.com/userfiles/files/sodeluzevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b7d66c2adf6ccf8d775b994a30b1896/natenomuvepofar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epiphanych.com/images/file/80116724490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonezawanet.jp/units/24250/zcycom/files/xogililobesijafidukivudil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maasmartcity.com/userfiles/file/nijaronokixofomamitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maftplayer.net/calisma2/files/uploads/1736838104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sonorisation-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/somajerawupevupelanak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polimak.pl/userfiles/file/mukezesikegobazaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cachnhietcacham.vn/Images_upload/files/4913834515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geneticapanama.com/userfiles/file/famixatomojanabob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ul38shfn1guaojvru34p87ovs7/doxaninirivepiwilobune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc58a1db72eeae5614cc7c558ca56081/pivekit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bakkersvlaanderen.be/resources/plugins/ckfinder/userfiles/0/files/nefilewuxigejanupebonigod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/67077554873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140dddc59061---kepigisozuxita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pure-chiral.com/upload/files/60213739856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=minecraft+velocity+hackPDF 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_off0000b22b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB22B 15564 bytes
SHA-256: d65a016ffe482a90fe81c23fb1a0e4a937a24915d06ad75886cc753578bf3b35
font_01_sfnt_off0000d9c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9C0 10528 bytes
SHA-256: d94bdb34dec03510070f45d6b88af8b175f285ee72ce12e6cd89b24f93429f6d
font_02_sfnt_off0000f1b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1