Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a57217ceca347d59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 22:49:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0cebe2134a2f591573f279039bfe3b5d SHA-1: fa8631db61c292db1bb450bdb58f0b68be7b3940 SHA-256: a57217ceca347d59d228efa2a5741274d2932c3f73f1a339275d8a3521bb1f07
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or contains malicious content. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. This suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://jungleflightchiangmai.jungle-flight.com/Uploads/files/47809479235.pdf
    • http://dc-07b6a75bc4d0.breakthrough-physical-therapy.com/userfiles/files/selobo.pdf
    • https://www.institutvzdelavani.cz/files/7962690515.pdf
    • http://leguido.net/files/mutajeronefawipowuzed.pdf
    • http://frigotechreina.com/userfiles/files/zipalefuvajowudugok.pdf
    • http://ff-engineering.com/userfiles/files/36361467208.pdf
    • https://kamwalibais.com/userfiles/file/4102573446.pdf
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131a49d43be6---54846059959.pdf
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614311f79d7d6---35007361887.pdf
    • http://preiss.at/upload_files/files/besegox.pdf
    • http://cukiernia.eu/upload/files/10034135852.pdf
    • http://putzlappenborner.at/editor_up/51511467305.pdf
    • http://abwingsbuffalo.com/uploads/files/wurezojuzajufekidirifi.pdf
    • http://bosch-elektronarzedzia.pl/catalog/file/jotexalujif.pdf
    • http://marleenjansen.nl/images/uploadfiles/satizudemibupebexa.pdf
    • http://omniatel.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9a958d5c7---jewawejokutedudulukudibep.pdf
    • https://sanmuabancongty.vn/images/content/files/mufapofazedujowomuj.pdf
    • http://ityab.com/cache/fck_files/file/35308269358.pdf
    • https://igruppe.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kejuvopowizajupe.pdf
    • https://j26clean.com/upload/files/95040599817.pdf
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/24070298247.pdf
    • http://zadonskiy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161431e450a36d---fadajerus.pdf
    • http://mcserpenti.com/userfiles/file/vevipupijawag.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=zamboanga+del+norte+zip+code
    • 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_off0000e33a.bin
af4ccd89632c55d2364d8943f7ede2edb3f3806871034a1e62c146ce32089dcc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE33A 10852 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbda.bin
8a3fac96afdadd5c032c2e0b4577b3759517123acfc6451dd03131bda7f01d21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBDA 18060 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012b26.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B26 16792 bytes