Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 993780a695bba621…

MALICIOUS

PDF

100.9 KB Created: 2021-09-07 16:10:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 0a384381043a6ffa946f8871a25fb3d3 SHA-1: 38d45b8d1ec00344a594edbe538d9b3652528ba6 SHA-256: 993780a695bba621e0a16e161d9125c190ad524378a772aea705e18100ccf049
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9877

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 https://liftsystems.ro/LiftFiles/file/napodosul.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202108160909113541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/14unctajlnfs079bct40mrol1ilbu3i5/zipemegomuxusonadaxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruresept.ru/files/file/jevanomuzefevivitedozasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ellisrasbetonwerke.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b61dec83b9f---pojagaxenusawisifuwezuweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/91723528674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://npi-management.com/ressource/site-image/files/tedafuliriwijulozalakepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82k6uu7bc03qoog4mu4b7fcu3g/34945945647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/rarekuwuxoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858c3631228---65748631699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msinziniering.com/userfiles/file/48236969669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a35832c3a1ae52286b60c6846ab3e06e/meguvamuxuxuduvuturumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agiusfuneraldirectors.com/files/file/xebif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/807d73f9ff29c11507a2d68b4800b1a0/xijuresux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a49bb41bc2c---xulapida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcoliseum.com/uploads/files/seberumobabajozowovaniwum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/13bd22c901452c90a2df04406aa84d9f/wavizopus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gau3i1eiuc2nrs7uqc9ftfaumc/66240911630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a26520af467---lapet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fad13163a28e5bbc6558563d920ffddb/44477877512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c139e01d1fa---86402254646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupoaccs.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49703328562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089ffe3045a1---fipenimiroronageta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tradeweb.es/userfiles/file/63520183633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hi-reid-solutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/777ede62ddcf90158a6a69529299ced7/nitum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong-thudo.com/img/files/goloranugexifozuzowexusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=kenmore+stacked+washer+dryer+repair+manualPDF 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_off00012678.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12678 17376 bytes
SHA-256: a236e1cec99a4095283294ba4e2e86511305e9e3ad89a59e218edab37899192c
font_01_sfnt_off00015369.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15369 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00016b80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16B80 11160 bytes
SHA-256: f78ccc5f23af6d4868e2a331c678db3e3e7979f8f9654b781f26241fd3b010d2