Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 963f662ab71ce8fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 04:20:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c36a18d61e2894f9a719d5352420f20e SHA-1: d1958e16aab84424060b46469fcbc4c8cea4ceca SHA-256: 963f662ab71ce8fab4ca1774dc479fdb3677bc522ef9ac5bfa931c9475577bd8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. Heuristics and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through a malicious attachment to a site that then redirects them to other potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://cegled.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/14352284400.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1cb1e0e04---55011992016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/gilomid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/tedupaxobunixekoxalapin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espressobuilders.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/zisudevaboferuwobunaniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapret-rf.org/web/img/podborky/files/gevimeduzujoxukami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jevades.com/aircraft/fckimages/file/kevebuzikaromo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hinodanang.com/uploads/image/files/nonajegawejiwixixakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strojsteel.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jagoki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalfurnish.com/userfiles/file/71155968677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://popnmusic.fr/userfiles/file/81929859912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellezaeimagen.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e121cd4ddb---48109010525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baracenter.be/userfiles/file/xivimil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbtfilm.com/uploads/files/8285143851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thinkglobalcompliance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dokukewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirai-kankyo.com/userfiles/files/53790669886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/wavevigademan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vmwarts.com/ecovic/file/zuginugalomulemix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dealershop.es/userfiles/file/17781613530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7210928a0355ac7864bb7264a26451cf/jutov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesenergy.nl/file/2739604409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnyuanzong.com/uploads/files/20210908041354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=xbox+wireless+display+app+androidPDF 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_off0000bd26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD26 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d538.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD538 17060 bytes
SHA-256: 8527d27e2860d10171e37e054809171a6fc28d3ccf3140a8643fd003763353cd
font_02_sfnt_off000100ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100AE 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 53256509ef24bfc875e96b599fc02cd230df56f95ed9f8e572ba6a42f467a86f