Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a128987526fe7bf5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2021-09-10 03:47:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1d0ff74622b6a53bd2ada1fada7d867d SHA-1: c589f08c6a8a569d4ea34a6b075ed16cbceb2e99 SHA-256: a128987526fe7bf5795995674bc1475f617f0dd7bb737c76d84ddaef2cefe2f8
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 link farms designed to obscure the final destination. Heuristics indicate these links are used for phishing and potentially malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=griffiths+introduction+to+elementary+particles+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9283292009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mkkdigital.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613566576730b---voxofemuzepafibamobawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62439654645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stnicholasway.com/userfiles/file/bedamujigufupimomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/files/43117586246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weilandensemble.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/damumowajalugaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks4073.com/file_media/file_image/file/kafagerinewelusaroduzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gjbbang.com/userData/board/file/mukanedaxijugoxononuwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starma.pl/files/file/37309034623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/96520203042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.luxboss.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62919294105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddnepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/botakafebuzax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/tajoxetokewuwazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/1158716728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://signexpowholesale.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/63699111192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fd.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44621562838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erex.hu/upload/file/46019378145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metamorfoza-krosno.pl/userfiles/file/96047346917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161336d7e6532c---56505408706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingsbrite.com/kingsbrite.com/userfiles/file/mojudagonupozevep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.espace-hotelier.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2664987470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marasintl.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/vinesonosewodiferiwikixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613859905a63a---xudapofejebiminazefeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1666-3668.com/attach/userfiles/file/soxukopapep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logicamail.it/draft/media/mufaganiwuraguxuvoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.name/eros/userfiles/file/dumazuzogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e5b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5B3 11140 bytes
SHA-256: eaea18362fcc28d17696a44425d6ed9e46ef78777ca49edfa9563391402f4832
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000117ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x117AC 18472 bytes
SHA-256: 167f7134d1b4637b10e8e37e85967492e40ba8ba4b647f52f171682801e9eb9e