Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 912a7cb9ef1b2674…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-09-02 07:26:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c655daac399c19a9aec25104d9bb36e9 SHA-1: b868d5329b67750821adfc192c1e885b9f48d160 SHA-256: 912a7cb9ef1b2674f90c72e745d68220cbd32bf5891964e8c3bf070962ca61c5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document 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 these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to external, potentially harmful, content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9923

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://rigdrilling.org/userfiles/file/xirupupuzifaditow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://reitinguok.lt/userfiles/file/9131264209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1s26uatiobe168eu5fpgdb8qf6/3385012455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d9242b6607---51170061269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608abdd03b2ef---fabazexesepotaloje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/12491881631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/turumejogavinov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veitali.com/upload/files/saketufosifekisubeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advantagelic.com/singhania/downloads/file/81245919679.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/95129112513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmare.de/userfiles/file/60921937636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neslihanonur.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e789d7cd646cbeddb6136c7f2395cefa/xebarogagisakazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kindspring.org/inc/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50537529525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ea57d8c201---duvekepigedanajusexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bd2e05e5f4---25697013445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giridhareye.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50841403453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/gelujirulipawotogumavegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clubmanizales.com.co/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608713548ef37---zobupopuwod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cgeminfos.ma/upload/file/75308942593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anadarkogomezfamily.com/clients/7/76/76920377ef4e0cfe2c6e77079a05cbd4/File/48133040999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/xobutuxifob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ongnuocdenhat.com/upload/files/badal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackhorsesc.pl/userfiles/file/jofareri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skk.com.hk/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11602651710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtshotel.it/images/file/fowomowilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=aversive+meaning+in+englishPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD1B 23456 bytes
SHA-256: 7cfe6641f1638d0f0c9a29219475464c988bda1115d8b6c8dac5421b45f3964b
font_01_sfnt_off000118ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118CA 10384 bytes
SHA-256: f59bb1ffb2e3892448927c6caaab579e21b1fd7260dcbea707587135ad0d4f4a
font_02_sfnt_off0001300f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1300F 16128 bytes
SHA-256: e086d997b6ee3c3fe48f8fdf49e8854b9e9bef9c53b5c2c5f26bba4f2b277426
font_03_sfnt_off0001456d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1456D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1