Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 985a3b19847c38b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-08-26 19:48:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 938d2e5872c334da25af85ee1712ae46 SHA-1: d8d60bbbb406959863fddf60e365e04d46cb53c6 SHA-256: 985a3b19847c38b1dcdc6c539e881c1bae974df327d74584943620bea74271b8
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 compromised websites or are part of a link farm designed to obscure the final destination. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of compromised CMS upload links suggests an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://hophamthaibinh.com/upload/files/1569831594.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://gpn1971.org/clients/a/a2/a25689677492d603657f1241a2a69ea8/File/xelavijixuxujitodomelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/jazexevufina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/nabosenozeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cantarefides.ro/admin/userfiles/file/71957807555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ed864d36b5---44470348840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsg-edinstvo.ru/userfiles/file/56746294192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adelaarenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n5egrch13pa4rt25g37i40jjp4/30165045526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gulfcoolcontracting.com/uploads/userfiles/file/file/83709952017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://congchunghadong.com/uploads/files/pifokulowaxeraxipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aradovan.com/userfiles/file/kerujirexezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petandpuppies.com/userfiles/file/81802791493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babamoleskine.com/files/file/numaworuvajepufurimometo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14079473578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hugslock.com/app/webroot/img/files/76428239751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivo-mebel.ru/upload/file/97950423123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6017042327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071e29705708---97424348689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scgqskbf9asi1ijkto3cjq0p67/7428581712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25h8k6p9brcsbjhjqf4rk53o7m/32292182570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angerdress.store/ckfinder/userfiles/files/razobamizesotuwurupopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.org/upload/lokilomugevadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/23443115530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediabandit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9fa63a26bf---96082220242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a84796a71ed---53261543514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=synonyms+for+good+times+and+badPDF 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_off0000d348.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD348 16480 bytes
SHA-256: 4bd63a4dad759f11fa54cf1f8a4e1982b4d8d866c54ce59726ebbdcedb0c7ffd
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDC0 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 665362479ad4cc309d870a323a27ffde26f1af89e92eb89bfd6b99dbe14800e2
font_02_sfnt_off00011709.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11709 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1