Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 947e6d1be3e44023…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.2 KB Created: 2021-08-05 15:57:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 8e66e3fdb3c7da030dd81d886ca17aa2 SHA-1: e278eceeb8df7dac90fa106c5d911c0aec4ad2a7 SHA-256: 947e6d1be3e44023a109baae8aa637dc63dd23c61473d37156321e641e4634f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which are likely compromised or disposable, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection suggests it may exploit PDF vulnerabilities or redirect to malicious JavaScript.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://quanghuydulich.vn/img_duhoc/files/14705481185.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.biz/files/file/20763039393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaf6ed64980---63818985279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdbim.pl/ubezpiecz/obrazy/file/fijiralojalija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/nitibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/992fe123b0084e49f59b89ac745e577f/rikaduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asfalon.com/__files/file/34021444704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b60c98fe20a072552cea663c67c8eb0/kibekokizifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kasekimi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e71e96554---55941035778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608756976a904---36544573132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a49a6e2d31e48ab982a1634102d4c379/seruzale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/15b9b68fac5a013455b89e40ea77d62a/76748085864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.proctoloji.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160739d76ef330---32418677990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a272e65e728---69920193404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f6dce9cc3a3---kegenuzene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160832090674c8---logimixevaziforufaluro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094377b0878f---teponiwapepitapufob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veglifekc.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files//12930641227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ddfafa4630a---42041930879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dralituncer.com/userfiles/file/75891174476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f13c031e1ac303351cc4f74cf4c351cb/bajafivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c126c27759---29073364848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://traveltokiev.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9lcjatq87et29slotajkmpuhd1/28121965908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091cab426d69---jelekovovoxigunukubema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef6457ae12---powewodoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+run+diablo+2+in+higher+resolutionPDF 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_off0000f9f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9F0 17540 bytes
SHA-256: 1776155410077f051e45cb0093465410c62511a23159600150b8cf84e0f88e0d
font_01_sfnt_off00012779.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12779 10964 bytes
SHA-256: c7a56839fd4538a1cb3168dc77358c2c98c555c2febcddd39eb30d011e8e35eb
font_02_sfnt_off000140b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140B3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1