Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b315660a42e21b98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-12 07:05:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 05643838e17895b4bc0e520dbb45023a SHA-1: 1ec060d046ea9ddb1d103fe154d546c15123c32d SHA-256: b315660a42e21b98de585e752fb74d062658a816bbf194c615b41fad86ec68f0
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, including those hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of urgency language further suggests a phishing attempt designed to trick the user into clicking the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://ducthai.vn/userfiles/file/tesarelurirukenevosew.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://phone-server.com/userfiles/file/mizasami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edouardweil.com/userfiles/file/36907364686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topoint.cc/userfiles/fckFile/20210904215736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teormech.ru/teormech/usrimg/file/35989348904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svarovanijelinek.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30893549424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianboudreau.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b963c95a3---tunukosobebamawizuvexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.jungle-flight.com/Uploads/files/viwaxenexoxulix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universal4shipping.net/userfiles/file/15225335192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuli-china.ru/d/files/denetepokumatiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.azurwelcomeservices.com/userfiles/file/29585066546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/givuzuwirisewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transdeliveris.lt/userfiles/file/2702299727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/256bpqd10vgekkgi4stpfibu32/denijele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokturmice.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80323811445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apicn.net/upload/files/doxuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdw-wolf.de/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75689418578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expobar.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/65011858829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceresasrl.it/userfiles/files/weketabogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/metaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161379c9fe5fb8---64298538763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wlpp.net/images/blog/file/4445762416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creativeindustries.ru/uploads/userfiles/file/84688909278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma-itc.ru/!upload/files/91366524734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leonardscopysystems.com/home/leonards/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dibutejofekajodore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=cordova+build+apkPDF 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_off0000da7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA7C 18008 bytes
SHA-256: 7a85fbecbbe225e18de849d40b740e60976e9304af8bd8689103ff419411ee2d
font_01_sfnt_off00010975.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10975 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001218c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1218C 10312 bytes
SHA-256: b3d85943ca991ab0f7256b2ddc7e557eb5704adba27e984df951388cbd6bacd9