Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a949fc97b922bca8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-10-11 08:26:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9d80b403b365c7823594cf08367611a9 SHA-1: 18c69c3ab8619a3e14f25bc7bd0584b7518b4f65 SHA-256: a949fc97b922bca8206eb94af12adebfbfa001cb664d967ef80d16645a51feb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high ML score and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable hosting or compromised CMS uploads. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicates a pattern of creating numerous links on different hosts, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term' in one of the URLs further suggests a tracking or redirection mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+lion+king+2003 PDF link annotation
    • http://oxigensupplies.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/72799719765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/29977871105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idcla.net/upload/files/53753883549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanruouvang.net/images/uploaded/file/begeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///sidepesitowisuxux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52fantasies.com/home/holly/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kunagijopivenerunigazakul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoskola-weiss.cz/userfiles/jadoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galenbio.com/images/upload/file/50101743381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f170110211---lesemasiwusologadokiteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.onestopnaturalstore.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rac7mua03s1m92huld9a72dcb5/87657084900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ezgoe.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78878299416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoquimica.cl/dinamicos/uploads/file/fibimabux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5974293.pasarantogel.com/contents/files/vixaramimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legouic-peinture.fr/userfiles/file/kowobavirorur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starfishdowney.com/uploads/files/99748430393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tefagodamiteje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/filubovusozivapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/65854301279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intelean.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615f8dc3583bc---82169651123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/wotitasuwitefonivizaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apothepharma.com/upload/files/91333582580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/49788564568.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_off0000b2b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2B3 10328 bytes
SHA-256: f67edb74e047679632e85637f359275573d7780d0e9df94b4b230485a6f93c00
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9F0 14392 bytes
SHA-256: efaee461bf644aa5a496bf51481477f84414295f5a650fd6139ceb149e9e2cac
font_02_sfnt_off0000edeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1