Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9700801a48edf76b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-10-26 09:52:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: b86b2852f3e61fb9cf6345cfa0185167 SHA-1: 7d7cf5c01840756c5f899ebd389f4d0721a31f64 SHA-256: 9700801a48edf76b9241be4823b8aa2dfc0b020357cfde79b99b77fa51104e1e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on disposable infrastructure or compromised CMS uploads. This suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users by leveraging SEO tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://domexpo.ru/up/file/tatugudevabeduxudafesini.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143e92dc30f9---61488386691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20210929191353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grupa-energia.pl/attachments/file/27521392628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forexinc.ca/upload/editor/file/24959577715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okna-dvere-online.cz/media/upload/upload/file/zusatewizodojivixakijaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edinburghpools.com/contents/files/jazofixipalupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-elektrostal.ru/upload_picture/file/tiduxugufatalonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norservis.info/files/files/13051648185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6eb0c211b349900d26cb535c95d2ae32/doroteruzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chengzechem.com/upload/files/jizijerumipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uflo.edu.ar/ckfinder/archivos/documentos/64491479796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/70819537642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzzxtl.com/UploadFile/file/20210910061752250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudateconmigo.cl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d47f6447a90735d87db31efad1f2fa5/madoxaveka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musicincw.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/84467611250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekselantechnology.solutions/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54528106648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubselect.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35477533296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikoljski.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wiwufopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vitalchurchesinstitute.com/files/file/83585786022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szerecsen.hu/editor_up/pogaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spartapr.com/images/upload/file/32570062147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bbensonmft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/68434d3d4e7b3ebb60f1964cd700219c/9287368825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulichtantai.com/files/uploaded/files/reramaremutitofuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julianina.dk/upload/file/kofefazimezix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MbOu/~3/oscUj7J0Gjw/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+shadow+box+meanPDF 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_off0000eeb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB7 18472 bytes
SHA-256: e7114ef51d7b0802868ea81b015fdf249ae687e60f236d908cd1599b180314ad
font_01_sfnt_off00011f14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F14 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001372b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1372B 10596 bytes
SHA-256: 244623d49488398a83734281131f38f1ba65834736b6d133172d8d21673dd2f2