Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 900f949d820e55d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:05:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: e9cc7a9d52f81dd2e6dad18c4c85a6c0 SHA-1: c3e4cb230a89e61b0f3df09af2b7bfcf583cf394 SHA-256: 900f949d820e55d87d18aa4888899ef4a14fd46254c0ffa99637c9c01eb5c046
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious content hosted on these sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://dent-pro.cz/pic/file/53260313705.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083036e1323d---leminotis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vuaship.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/puh73rdenjqul8dc9bdedaf276/wigukikidebimurosidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debsluxe.com/clients/1/17/174397649ed9f07baa8f9d9f48c72a4d/File/82784895030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.willmarareachamber.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18561396760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prochem.vn/images/uploads/files/xilasuwisup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://southfieldhigh.com/clients/a/a2/a202dccd336a30abee2d0a4364b9f07c/File/xezebiniwogaxedepopizowas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jl-vacuum.com/upload/files/paxofelerusaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----9sbccjdbca7cyaieg1a3j.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8c87b8c9fcfef5d4baa64dfc69a8942/58251465443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evo-models.com/uploads/userfiles/files/guvojuvupuxesijukesugelun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canadianrockies.info/files/file/donokezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acgroupenterprise.com/userfiles/file/buvabedurapemej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/54rkcd5ve27votnc464v0c11f6/kozufexopimonufowabipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608187f429c87---68335534788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/towegusebaraludike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lso-msm.fr/userfiles/file/xexesomizozup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7h8h6p7f2ciejeglcb2b1atp4k/nozibozanevumusewidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrdak.cc/uploadfile/files/dazavobemuzadibora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/88400791057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/nujukukadozavodefet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinex-auto.com/userfiles/file/zojarik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anvlaw.com/userfiles/file/zozawaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaatkinson.com/userimages/pebix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d8ad2bdad5f67a552682c6fc14201f5/58062113749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=default+database+collationPDF 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_off0000e4cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4CB 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 7cacc7ba2d3aa20934c3c6a8dcd760bbdefd31fbb4b13cf407597a672961071b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD28 18672 bytes
SHA-256: da95739ac21744a4bda03cd5571543f79a0eec22c9cc1535d8a4a7422b6899cc
font_02_sfnt_off00012d91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1