Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a1943a3dee55f95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-26 13:10:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 03199c0754f15d3e340362d0485c402d SHA-1: bea5119243118be2ee34b81198e9860ccac1bd25 SHA-256: 8a1943a3dee55f95dc4d899d27da54b8fb4cfb71a1da577fd52b63ea08c1d30e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm directing users to multiple external URLs, many of which host other PDFs. This behavior is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

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://habibitours.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33951982132.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://praguynakorn.com/praguynakorn/picture/datapro/files/jazitetinisumabezixodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://re-media.ru/foto/ck/files/28953210793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.haztartasigepszakuzlet.hu/pics/file/9332546193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f2f1680734---8231496058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ap116.ru/userfiles/file/25834171841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sallytour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210922_3038E11FD6EB07EA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136659f56c88---xegifeloviko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maristaslardero.es/userfiles/file/fokivelomitivovajiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://almondzwealth.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/2141888860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyxedayhang.com/userfiles/files/42087604278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file/files/25591256993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8fd1b6a13a7ef36f833221708777ed91/kamitukikuwaloxiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bosingels.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/litega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslatalaia.com/userfiles/file/17872077734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nilesk.com/userfiles/file/pikirimegebagodosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lianbang123.com/uploads/files/202109150608295474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://undergroundtakeout.com/userfiles/file/19142171975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://st-johnson.com/Uploadfiles/files/28185738621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasset.bg/userfiles/file/kubibuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/pozewubopav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/sugowepezoliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fobas.cz/userfiles/file/pigunidaxivuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tecnotrefg.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be90fc4512---doxoruluwilupulegomuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=top+ten+android+multiplayer+gamesPDF 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_off0000b0a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8B4 16340 bytes
SHA-256: 5cb2fa51953a12f001af9e0af316ff704d7bd860dc341b434eac37ccf9dc02ca
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2ED 10912 bytes
SHA-256: afbda90cdd3002dae47d8ba27974f218ef64ea6f67c663cc239e7584139ec9e4