Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a734f8b3c8ef668e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.0 KB Created: 2021-10-10 01:33:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 09654bf2543f38f17754cf9d4f3ca1d5 SHA-1: c1339c25c00dafcc0aad26ee0a525c8562fcfc70 SHA-256: a734f8b3c8ef668eb345b7c843852a7815f968c7545b60afd48f7b80dcd35010
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The document contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to unknown or potentially compromised domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://roseeskin.com/userfiles/file/20210929130146.pdf
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210916055718.pdf
    • http://kalikraft.com/images/file/rijefo.pdf
    • http://wakingbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395ccb0b90b---85877604434.pdf
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/basowiwifomazabimuwuko.pdf
    • http://bunny888.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57225139773.pdf
    • https://dermo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615fbaa7ef99c---jafemufotapaf.pdf
    • http://wingmanplanningdemo.com/userfiles/files/42626868316.pdf
    • http://kaies.cn/upfiles/211005223853924256ykwpyi.pdf
    • http://vonschickenconcord.com/uploads/files/79033382827.pdf
    • https://natatourism.com/userfiles/files/61206821988.pdf
    • http://prplus4u.com/ckupload/files/pepunonawepunixofuvepu.pdf
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuduvotojozimirude.pdf
    • https://0924055971.com/uploads/files/202109301922233025.pdf
    • http://rivebistro.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31322028304.pdf
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614d480427615---75932022993.pdf
    • https://linker.tw/files/ruvezod.pdf
    • https://vkgnassociates.com/dayafter/uploadimages/newsimages/file/nodufidanava.pdf
    • http://am-assets.com/aom/magnolia/userfiles/file/52531280224.pdf
    • http://dichvuhieuchuan.com/upload/files/detemamokum.pdf
    • https://goooinggroup.com/userfiles/files/20211008_220646.pdf
    • https://bselink.com/userfiles/file/35627567674.pdf
    • http://kammed.com/userfiles/file/30216163277.pdf
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/famizazerapopo.pdf
    • http://bukvoznaika.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/movuwamaxoluvomoweg.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+book+of+peter+in+the+bible
    • 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_off000107f9.bin
46cbe79f676d7ffe83e50cabaaca1f99e5f4f2e60631a31726cbd388ea395736
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F9 10320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011ee9.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EE9 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000136fb.bin
93270cbe4a4221024fa93b45f0af4ac1b1853cac5783ff18895947ddf463a676
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x136FB 19860 bytes