Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 992818665d3c82be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-23 12:57:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 006fef90c5d3c31adff66aa1f27669c4 SHA-1: 45d51e9aeaae30552a2b460ac328c4c9816ffc1e SHA-256: 992818665d3c82bee95446c4880529091385261a14f363967cb85fe433f1bf49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely intended to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of multiple links to PDF files hosted on various domains suggests an attempt to distribute a second-stage payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210921_74843B01A35B2A0E.pdf
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87f63f94370148225e6252604a084b76/mijojodesox.pdf
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/wufirebudapufuxo.pdf
    • https://jck.ro/userfiles/file/dinovojarisog.pdf
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/wuwubanolafexegigixediv.pdf
    • http://domainecomps.com/documents/files/zifinixenav.pdf
    • http://nfraccon.org/userfiles/file/dipumufezot.pdf
    • https://noelex22.org/userfiles/file/zosonomaxadin.pdf
    • http://aedjtjdshbf.pretty-match.com/upload/files/7278981272.pdf
    • http://goteneplast.se/files/images/file/nonuwitefaxusetaj.pdf
    • http://exteractif.fr/pictures/2/93172792805.pdf
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/xupamanavuzuvoxofisov.pdf
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161343ae77e66f---pajuwepegufapupefezoke.pdf
    • http://manpukuorder.com/uploads/files/22305097929.pdf
    • https://vaitinhdien.com/app/webroot/upload/files/57913577814.pdf
    • http://lapmaymn.samdigroup.vn/app/webroot/upload/files/nilapodeguraguj.pdf
    • https://ohcsi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12739129365.pdf
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61dde452ce7ed42df1c288242f88310a/visijujuworezojod.pdf
    • http://yourbuilding.ru/userfiles/files/jufunatizutojef.pdf
    • http://tartak-monis.pl/tartak/images/file/8842982696.pdf
    • https://enilubricantvn.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/59901385461.pdf
    • https://mytshirtcreator.com/app/webroot/files/file/34142071132.pdf
    • http://laserbeautymachine.net/d/files/masaxepuxapima.pdf
    • http://zhuxintrading.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/20210908/16310968405708.pdf
    • https://burragebrothers.com/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/pijatebepazo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=android+soccer+streaming+app
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f150.bin
61e922bffb3ec5af1e44bc45f4ebde21b8b7354fa262a15ee12c51cdf7572a2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF150 10792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010a00.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A00 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012212.bin
b2bbba9b4126daaf456808d5664b7b224be9e5347a773fcd65167c9d8315773f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12212 17656 bytes