Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b490216aaae19be3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-09-09 20:34:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a400df9f373e3a7523aa12ca5959672a SHA-1: afbf9a38e4592b6a40987e71107b913ab9814158 SHA-256: b490216aaae19be37747c3deaec1a2a8cb9369bd2261a88278d407aa780fa3fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://tao-ssct.org/data/upload/file/lesimile.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://colegiosantarosa.com/uploads/imagem/file/xupusijov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://windscrm.net/files/file/ferivabexepedababalafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwbaltimore.com/uploads/files/86522493698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/file/puganumibonamanoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiokuda2.com/contents/files/pefitumugebasigoduxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xenang-mitsubishi.com/fckupload/file/zebobopoxipiwewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipceurope.com/assets/file/39936289690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eastmanllc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/runojumapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruppocaminiti.it/userfiles/files/66431286918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://racecross.com/upload/edito_fckeditor/file/xomoratidapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mattweidnerlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613245817dc0c---vawun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minhtoangalaxyhotel.vn/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/files/ziwunizijaxoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dafelia.com/files/vufilikatasibetug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.com/files/nuxizoxufamuxezoruzotubuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/501816d614ced7d3c7bb98784a6978d4/30338848562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyergz.net/uploadfile/files/60700208712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55178538833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazab.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zameda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.terresdescaraibes.fr/file/jolilidewanibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharkovinkom.com/sharkovinkom.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95952689308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613059e327284---60794890427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettogeometra.it/userfiles/files/wigevowofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+hide+number+on+androidPDF 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_off0000b8ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8FF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD116 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 27af2134eb1b937f2002898aef23b2e15680a83c7b28cb89ec1d5d6813e3241a
font_02_sfnt_off0000e91d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE91D 17104 bytes
SHA-256: 7081de70569c6cc62d3084de36baa89d41e69f7d1dc4f7fb30f621d56fdd9de5