Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 875cb9971caf1088…

MALICIOUS

PDF

137.4 KB Created: 2021-09-16 07:56:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 31ee94947d36ecf06305c7edd80fb099 SHA-1: 2236e5456513f47de37a83d33386a20cc703fb1f SHA-256: 875cb9971caf10880b3e4c976a2c7291f1e976cc244b0e07c42161c1cc9a7530
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates an attempt to lead the user to a secondary malicious resource, likely for phishing or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9913

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://mcutech.net/files/51292281634.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rkj7hfcjb40n4cb3vv2gfj3qlu/99793147318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafoglia.eu/userfiles/files/vefubexuvotagizexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagakure.by/upload/editor/files/bisixitebome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenboo.vn/uploads/files/45941452434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viboot.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vefij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mezmat.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51325537083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybaobidinhdinh.com/upload/files/62285806333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bularz-auto.pl/images/userfiles/file/dokepanawelamalerepugexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blossomtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_080B282B02FC9251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.org/contents/files/kuwidezejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ebkduv1himr2adlk31k0v0qfcu/nafanokojetubufuladi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamurgoreng.net/contents/files/67346428683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/39360380598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuonghieutoancau.vn/uploads/files/xadakubivewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161428626abc41---58061533811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz/uploads/palojopemiwebuvegezek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8387955175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fisheaglesafaris.net/pics/user/file/xibafotefarijusogeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/beborijogur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a8796692c8---penim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurau.com/luodan/images/userfiles/file/56546758741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.com/slicice/file/sipokosagovukukiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shyjjc.com/v15/Upload/file/2021951358321015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pantryscan.com/123cars/imagefck/file/josuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=bhagwat+geeta+pdf+in+sanskritPDF 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_off0001a954.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A954 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001c16b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C16B 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 458728fca9f46b3e797ff7494dc3a20696f4ca5a41131eed0ed7759ca3c03239
font_02_sfnt_off0001da46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DA46 24608 bytes
SHA-256: f2e1a30f6afaa0934ba9bb183f44d5c21f4fdace0139d0bf9544007c232b26a7