Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a417db8db83ae7fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-08-12 21:22:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 12be6c613013cc96680a3abdc25e0135 SHA-1: 3c26531fa1de790cc556c1b7ce26f60b1964d199 SHA-256: a417db8db83ae7fa6673fbadf921c1f7fb515a3c73f759132b981975f095475e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM and PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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 http://www.ags-sib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15090819037.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mo-space.space/web/img/podborky/files/13536100006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0851.com/userfiles/file/20210719194701_56n070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rfychina.com/upfiles/files/16280484997055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7a7477e6ab1cb195e6ee80c5c0896e5/xepuzusetur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaa58333377---864174726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.inter-tube.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d4c02b4e5bde6859459137060dda83c/befotop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellerflows.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62de2122022bc79b40d98085b7877e11/24638123043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindatpeace.us/uploads/files/17154641355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160920dbe3f280---50552385669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/mojafovedolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contentworks.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c8bc7b2391---xekilojosugil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artpolinakuzina.ru/pict/file/55804015129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11583465525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staging.impactredevelopment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607999b771a8d---wanikuxonorog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/setebasupubedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9c9625874b01fcb8473bd4ec63c897a3/35176673936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/55013439005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elnativocoffee.com/silver/upload/files/duxutisomakokasorago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://endoaccessories.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92fl6s5av34ics8bitort6n6sm/82356937840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theettiaresmontreal.com/clients/f/f0/f03dfc1790708d0b03c48e9879ef2ea6/File/28803591036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/85685211066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usafiles.net/11hE/Complete_PET_Student_s_Book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=cambridge+english+complete+pet+student%27s+book+with+answers+pdfPDF 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_off0000bd52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD52 18596 bytes
SHA-256: 3341eae59c8aa8c7c1833c063cd63a181ef10243dbb3618d428da9f95e8733ad
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB71 11552 bytes
SHA-256: 3d691e85d67f210ae31a7dd3dfaa566037e7d5b4c6a50212cf114c4c8e264bc2
font_02_sfnt_off00010651.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10651 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1