Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a743a1985590e905…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-19 21:20:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: addb476c89d259f6f7d681cecc02941a SHA-1: b23a842e2c981d4ef22932ef7ae2317698793093 SHA-256: a743a1985590e9050f02869636e68811a77aea1787b0f48d9fc6ff4e429c88bc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+puzzle+adventure+games+for+android PDF link annotation
    • https://www.dooleysnaturalgas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52575384372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/65576795186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equalland.com/uploads/File/lilosigewodirelelafiged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pactolous.hu/upload/file/gavobarimilogopuzebix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joinsocialbubble.com/cake/beta/userfiles/file/1976824770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cedresarquitectura.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143370e08fa5---76655582686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kawadozivusetutowaxebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383d7cf1861---81166848237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://foxgraphics.paulsfashion.in/files/56344066314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sibconsulting.com/contents/files/dumetijitunivefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142393c803e5---fakepajudanow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://angel-conference.org/upload_fck/file/2021-9-5/20210905065031518231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-vv.dk/userfiles/file/fenadalemadavogaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batdongsandothanh.vn/luutru/files/kerosevupekulunabemapupux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161322f077797c---bexotunujen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appextskihjthj.handysociality.com/upload/files/luwiwixejinugejofujew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buren-kompanie.de/userfiles/files/mojulowujoxuxufexotatev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136eff109bd2---pusuwogiwozemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsp.by/userfiles/files/25265682611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f526910a74b4655feec803727c1f0f6/denabopagapotad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1fc9806fd488aa2be73abb5e0f075df/dofekasawizat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundryindia.org/userfiles/file/67930799026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bollnas.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/kifufopibowomatifet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laiyi-art.com/userfiles/file/rugeguluraberevanitesab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sladkiy-ostrov.ru/userfiles/files/julevidodixawanutiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khyatiinfotech.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zumavala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d6c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eedd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEDD 11120 bytes
SHA-256: 1f09c8ca339707241a86dea24f85dbd2bfa42d4f0cf54b5a56d582254366d8f0
font_02_sfnt_off000108b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B5 16388 bytes
SHA-256: 15cf93ffb00d41f72409add063b43f538ee0b4967251598615e6a373a254fa21

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