Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a994ff0660774abc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-08-28 18:57:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 63b5ef24c9b5a5a35f7fac5e37cd623b SHA-1: f5a0fd6c8da0c7dc26e6dba780b530a665ed391f SHA-256: a994ff0660774abce122961f99186ea7950c2b2298122f4ca54708c0b384791c
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 as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs and link farm indicators suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to compromised websites or phishing pages. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=small+company+bookkeeping PDF link annotation
    • https://kientrucqhouse.com/uploads/image/files/95461400893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arch.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77533772191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sure2trips.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/zakavoziraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57rl5cdr5b6rupk4l9b8fc5kse/regesokokupakor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gtselect.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11507933546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609878a3e6849---57897684402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6dojeba2efclajtffq112dr8iq/sozule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f11f899a90b---52151346474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byecook.com/ckupload/files/gifewonilubano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://summithighschool1958.com/clients/71652/File/37310363804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160837775efa2b---vimadonemitirurixejuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thejinglelab.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ki668vjdooa2hckhmt0mipubmr/57859961741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erkerlaender.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db963fd6350---65917123002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discoveryenglish.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073cfeae36b1---lobaroxuxesutosidorazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enterpriselighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9315b8fb0d0ec41540931e4d368d1372/99297186075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massvt.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/nefexelonaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/xoragekab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implantsdentairesdesmoulins.com/upload/editor/file/jakagurinosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realestateconnect.us/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mieor6n8b0aq8p7qi1862l03t0/tuluzozetekaponejuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexlunacoach.com/img/editor/file/fisoxejijuwusinibabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.cn/UploadFile/file/F1202107020904304533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beautifulmoda.com/userfiles/files/16561953009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenzoum.org/home/integrity/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20668129737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pgnsualumni.com/clients/872691/File/pikifuzaguzesezoxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-astana.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7f5970d563ed1cb19bfa0cf726eaf6b/nupan.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_off0000eb14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB14 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 290a1243284921183ac5b74022c6e19de7f0ead3fc0e3a79bf7e64d3c3e513af
font_01_sfnt_off000103a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BB5 16412 bytes
SHA-256: 413fe4397d61bd53999088e93263000bd5c37213c9ca66e3b6e994010172d50c