Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a684dcf07d4df427…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 13:31:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 59813e0e3364aecde2074da16056b3a8 SHA-1: 0a2ba831eaa24f724b14f452579f57420edc8504 SHA-256: a684dcf07d4df4275a97d3245e5ffd52d6388274482cb538e5399ec936f2d784
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 numerous compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics indicate a likely spearphishing attachment used to deliver a payload or phish credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://www.paparazzirestaurant.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dd94a254191973ad688fca83e69f9354/95467667031.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/napojuzasidumisuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feriaalainversa.com/uploaded/files/34401417986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bcm.es/files/galeria/files/73777418987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210904_390F2AC24585E40E.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chauffeur-prive-nice.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161369c7dae03e---64517671353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b961ca231---3066971721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachfirebrands.com/userfiles/file/paxamuvokozuwupov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ef4860430---baxozerubomawizisirave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrpressconsulting.com/UserFiles/file/wijezaxolevezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/27765ca95673919bba8ade2a68794d3f/vosabogixojuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photofetimages.com/9653872343.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robodom.si/files_vsebine/60396561632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://curry-box-deluxe.de/userfiles/file/95905736430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131fde8ad9c2---mokawupumidufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fairbank-ia.org/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89734057573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bytip.net/filespath/files/20210908191228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etoprosto.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97872943865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aircond.md/upload_fck/file/76400905997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdv.sk/userfiles/articles/file/xotetirunipab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/geditikesik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanauhrova.cz/files/rowusove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikincielinmak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/6598237582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csn-alliance.com/data/files/84907051206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a64bee46d---lezatumoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phuvuongcorp.com/luutru/files/pomozuxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=android+freeze+appsPDF 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_off0000d947.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD947 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f15e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF15E 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 8a177b884eed71bfeb04484839ec8e6167c34a182299dc8e6e4b67e3d60321ed
font_02_sfnt_off000108fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108FD 18208 bytes
SHA-256: 4876e576bee2c212333fee737f3f57dcbfcd4ff16583d28eafcd33118f676d00