Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f53aff2dab80aad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 22:37:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 35d09d4cc1dbbef152b0d3bafeb35c80 SHA-1: c5ff228489fd3c3d84beddf0e67cbb24d86feca8 SHA-256: 9f53aff2dab80aad71ad3f9d5d4bfa832629d81c9cc124d2f0445bbd13ce0df4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm and by a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The ClamAV detection of 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature, indicating it is likely used for phishing or to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://charqueadaboavista.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/80623eb681fdd2f3b978aa92a2122f9e/56335467855.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c0012c1f97---lifudupevolikokonelufaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togetherwewalkny.org/clients/2/24/2411cc079aa0f0d7fd57f81c6163ecfd/File/50003487815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apsara.ru/userfiles/file/89458503970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nova-auto.com/upload/jukadivofuwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzjksj.com/images/upload/File/21026348936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retroldn.com/userfiles/file/78505068575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klpreschool.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608db02b50540---wifepibow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/gadupafozetoxelerum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://classicalgardenstatues.com/uplds/file/36339343102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arrayamed.com/userfiles/file/61771443961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/27815658513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/jotabupozobopigugetoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://songhandiban.com/uploadfile/file/2021061410122573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1288164dfc---83635868857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxethai38.com/upload/file/majuzejugevalotolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://landmanenterprises.com/clients/6/66/660ad4be7ac834282af30b44844c6003/File/57525684855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://munnarinfo.in/userfiles/file/98237453975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5bebf271f1---polarejuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samarpanbharat.org/trila/userfiles/file/vaxodudetoxofitim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog//file/xuwanubegemiwadawex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bf88ee2455---51497838183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160972e377eed4---kezedikiwedozetos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8bfaf1840b4fdea3a1d4a779bd133f1/gekebidamulemirufepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+change+the+number+of+a+footnote+in+wordPDF 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_off0000f5be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010dd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DD0 17500 bytes
SHA-256: 86fe04f516b2c4aeaecbb9169b95cd2d2e09ac6f3db20ada11cce30577ea91f6
font_02_sfnt_off00013bb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13BB9 11024 bytes
SHA-256: d13f836358c6b0a82858092f4aaab6ecc042a41ef8e6e0623d8242595d565f9b