Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a164ee7bcf2aaba7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-24 19:20:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: c97653bfa5186db29e1c3a082a3ee9fd SHA-1: 70d347de6fde766be88c9f6eafe66fbe82949a69 SHA-256: a164ee7bcf2aaba734b01864914064f38d7c64b3bce258eee0b445e23c7cfac1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+game+ppsspp+digimon+rumble+arena+2
    • http://alibabashipping.com/userfiles/file/jizofutuxifitatimes.pdf
    • http://yugreat.com/filespath/files/20210909230206.pdf
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f13ccf2d30---dorajevinise.pdf
    • http://yameitecl.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210911_194906.pdf
    • http://leprofit.ee/cmsfile/contentfiles/42209337579.pdf
    • http://maychaybocaocap.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/39435871786.pdf
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b4cd60fa8e75e66f3d810d98459a6b0/sefawamu.pdf
    • http://studiosiciliani.eu/userfiles/files/tojevuvitixabararazozog.pdf
    • http://519pf.com/userfiles/files/vuvoku.pdf
    • http://serbanindustrialconstruct.ro/uploads/files/56074070008.pdf
    • https://konteshamamotu.com/userfiles/file/42393761899.pdf
    • http://termosystem.pl/userfiles/file/31207631158.pdf
    • http://www.gieskestukadoors.nl/ckfinder/files/files/85470805566.pdf
    • http://spbmedaks.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/67167215900.pdf
    • http://magogaralbamoble.com/galeria/files/90936272111.pdf
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140274675b68---48678873552.pdf
    • http://faw-asia.com/image/upload/files/15492423152.pdf
    • http://tccsrl.org/userfiles/files/74835445815.pdf
    • https://www.osteopathe-montpellier-sud.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kefulad.pdf
    • https://bursaceviritercume.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613153ec6d771---62528689770.pdf
    • https://mariapolis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56588074387.pdf
    • https://digireg.lu/upload/tekumivesajef.pdf
    • https://kalitelivideoizle.com/resimler/files/xuxebonidonivufusekufu.pdf
    • 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_off0000af8f.bin
b9a3b9f6da9ff0500702303694f561bdfb1e0c46426d56cc96d7ae410758b609
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF8F 15152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d5e5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5E5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000edfc.bin
7d9208a728a42c562586ecce87545a274a0b24f53bf5c5ab4a75e33d2b946027
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDFC 11084 bytes