Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 875069aec1d32dab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 14:22:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9c000c0bbe58e80d4703bf551c9b3dbf SHA-1: 4360bbd09818a9c7d6dbd1224518aa6d48a6074a SHA-256: 875069aec1d32dabb8ab7d7e57737c681086787342bd9e5bfaf78f79e405dd5e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a malicious PDF detected by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly imply an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=persona+4+strongest+persona
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/wasoji.pdf
    • http://webbuilders.com/files/file/tolisosexikur.pdf
    • https://www.sehersirin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8f370ee08---gologim.pdf
    • http://alimentosldm.com/userfiles/file/74107390692.pdf
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daa0112736abc27f265ad34398f59fa0/25264450558.pdf
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f3cff9866b9113f51fa6a41e4fba90aa/35524913335.pdf
    • https://www.pennlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1f61d1ebc9c453a6517b649fde4a4059/tuvutiwamovalatedetir.pdf
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77d925ab45048f9da1ba521b8b035b3e/98544641910.pdf
    • http://loveperfectionschool.com/upload/file/61807027427.pdf
    • https://stewsites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a6fb07a82a4a0582f7a65cf86583f4a/guzaxofedatog.pdf
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/610dd962f7714c6c9066a17101b53bd4/41860404518.pdf
    • http://peusch.lu/userfiles/files/kupunuzulaxidor.pdf
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606fdc14ae033---zurezeduluje.pdf
    • https://lostsoulsmemorialnj.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fea85dafacc55fdfc2f9a64f073f18a/tinibabamadidijipozaxape.pdf
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/19475947179.pdf
    • http://gezond-trakteren.nl/kasteel-doornenburg-img/bestandenfile/28315974876.pdf
    • http://vtvxm.vn/userfiles/file/98791923914.pdf
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/bukazulevulafemifujana.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f884.bin
4dbd637d3cf77f8daccf3beb8bb2ebf9d593b55e2b5a712fd9e09f25e71588f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF884 2448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010319.bin
af3d3287a07cf02eba17187a844694038a642a68f7cd4b3509b37cc59e4e6cff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10319 18116 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013285.bin
9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13285 16092 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000147ca.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147CA 16792 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off00015fe1.bin
541395d73f120fb33878f713e838ef8ca2cd76dc47d938eb2ac8be4ed8fc984d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15FE1 10368 bytes