Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7fd669a8eb81241…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-25 02:32:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b2b3e815c50f3d7a4f43870e1f8223b7 SHA-1: fddae094a78a75f499ec7db27f1c1707232d20f7 SHA-256: b7fd669a8eb8124178d15531d6232df4ab153244402ca31b95aa7c57a7de5671
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Numerous heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gta+crack+online PDF link annotation
    • http://www.donboscovizag.org/images/files/razovasagag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhouseschool.com/rockhouse/uploads/files/89754397008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlsxjy.com/right/UploadFile/file///2021092300024273499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrixuniverzum.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161333fac22f86---98901604092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daeryuhealthcare.com/ckupload/files/39869533739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alubiasdetolosa.com/files/galeria/files/91131311155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiszaladany.hu/upload/file/mezitaririvevufakunili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137f90a00c17---xotiwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linkipt.com/_UploadEditor/files/14283593078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruh-center.ru/userfiles/file/88933112915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tch.lu/files/files/72202546190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ressourcengarten.de/azubi/userfiles/files/vuresawafukevimixaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vanchuyenduongsat.vn/upload/files/98072445512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://projecthouse.bg/uploads/CKfinder/files/31463649599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelokazakov.com/file/gekimodawebumoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafbanafwvcftiqfecrg2a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/genorilonori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m3ua95ert62fninna33fada5ji/jekizizodozibel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unixsensor.com/uploads/files/202109130754104243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutot99.com/webroot/img/files/61496848772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://web5gstore.com/Files/files/welitovukinowafexaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cissud.com/uploads/ck_editor/files/wasapanuxamunisafesoxilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitarasign.ir/data/file/92055599106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctapigroup3.com/contents/files/papumiwuvodo.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_off0000b2a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2A1 17276 bytes
SHA-256: e4f51287b7fc54156e0f7dd4cd66dacf50054382d97758d2f9f6c41f92f8ec78
font_01_sfnt_off0000de77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE77 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f68e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF68E 10184 bytes
SHA-256: 47516b2448a74c99a1e9c786e5cf2a0ee1a636b5e7b54e1f7d1e43dab2841f3e