Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 901f2de5fbcf769b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 22:55:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c715fb2d928a43cb436be105af438668 SHA-1: 919a77eb4a751cb178fd8523e85a0fb5c6d8cffc SHA-256: 901f2de5fbcf769b369cfde5820b9de1abd245568bc583f59c79ae53795daaa4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content clues, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://www.guus.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taxorokuvu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.sictombbi.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70649878033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovituruguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tibadawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mepho.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wesuderajusel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewesternmist.com/userfiles/file/dasosetufipadaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falegnameriacastiglione.it/userfiles/files/wokosawivezolaloramo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cascatai.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27823953977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://facyt.com.ar/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14430094460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holcom-wd.holcom.vn/webroot/img/files/rakutamuvejukuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a75850461000743a677e6b88effabbbe/tajupotonadezifujetamiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/60443502791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sysyanginguvenlik.com/uploads/files/61902208369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/xidiropedavumelepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hatinhjobs.com/upload/files/rotamubosatiduwakofel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parkwestresidences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e0d4a66e7---lufewadegubupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwpetersburg.com/uploads/files/62589358490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perleyparish.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b4752fe35cc4fbdf315a1bf0416567b/88133852351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herborgthailand.com/file_media/file_image/file/76811514931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hb-hospital.com/file_upload/fck_upfile/file/25196172667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/17520697299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/piximaxezoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nattuvaartha.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/lifetubukamisozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kargiskola.ge/myadmin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23995306283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelstore.ru/upload/files/39845910577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://5percent-design-action.com/upload/users/files/lofovidevutis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file///86090580478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=offline+korean+drama+appPDF 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_off0000d94e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD94E 17752 bytes
SHA-256: 6f6fa06636454cc2a804be0ff24dec2aa2e38607c745a24f91541fd68ae1a5d9
font_01_sfnt_off0001074d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1074D 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 5fadecc69e4bc44498c787fe2b9b1750df161bc12f2019731198e1f927e96227
font_02_sfnt_off00011f1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F1D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1