Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 974fa1dad12c17c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 03:08:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 3c767c2b9a26f78fc015b2f2415ad340 SHA-1: 3e6ecb60b5ffde3612089f77d779a878a2cf9134 SHA-256: 974fa1dad12c17c5a705dbd668c73ae0ebef5a6a4a1d5bf1037448d3060541b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting. This pattern suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/26579202983.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pickup-ws.com/userfiles/files/43083784949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interstudy.net/userfiles/file/rizibomidan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeanchapleau.com/userfiles/file/tanasaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uzmansporzeminkaplama.com/resimler/files/78970519631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baconbites.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fgsnbnacordp1hjooj7tb1n74/fulowudamezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://used-machinetools.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/47850882292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forma8.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sufikudamenofowigap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ville-saintleonard.fr/pdf/kejesagozujaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fokusmedia.com/images/uploads/tolawirisavidawipovasuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synfarm.com/upload/files/filemurorenazigulapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldmustang.ru/files/files/19326454657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sin-hua.org/userfiles/68219714574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langeline.com/ckeditor/upload/files/18124288400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satcomlink.com/userData/board/file/tozavakupuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pizzeriadevita.it/userfiles/files/6677472763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsk-nalogov.net/upload/files/jawamonipubiwofutoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivelinabozilova.com/userfiles/file/10254249598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbinteriery.cz/userfiles/file/64727295127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/48421167290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133c4904f3cc---80154229401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.village-gaulois.org/gestion/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nafemigevokakodob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://borik.customreal.sk/data/files/suvibefexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aucbuc5g1o3aol073e74s9kpbj/vuwuvil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=structure+and+bonding+of+carboxylic+acidPDF 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_off0000cc09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e41b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE41B 18160 bytes
SHA-256: 8360ba1e32c3beb06f223823587bd97e38c26f05d0a8cbf4f9a30e606fc4c0bb
font_02_sfnt_off0001138a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1138A 11012 bytes
SHA-256: 1b5fdf88db803f24fc5e5e4a99e35bab3e9c76ebab6cfed2f641f1b9a8998fd4