Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b883e92df47a9e95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:11:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: bd3684701f4eb7491e5b566aef899947 SHA-1: 87f757cffca0ba8f96bdec9055926d6b5c665d8c SHA-256: b883e92df47a9e955b59f66d3c2f2ae430a3ba8b94be75c3b9fbff898c681a79
196 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 high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous unknown URLs, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to direct users to malicious content, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://agppi99.pretty-match.com/upload/files/32949192819.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rent-lease-no1.com/userfiles/file/20210908155347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglory.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fudebofulasokipiwufewoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joyerialaplaza.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75430969596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benqmusicworkshop.com/fupload/file/16565379610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ariaparvaz.com/basefile/ariaparvazcom/files/52980770904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birudongker.com/contents/files/28841890945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventensis.lt/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7451833506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyxedayhang.com/userfiles/files/pazigebonadizolevamipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allegypttours.net/userfiles/files/15057576586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161451d7829310---jiladudikega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptktent.ru/userfiles/file/mopisuwibugoxerifasafot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morganmethod.tuesdaytrader.com/ci/userfiles/files/zizapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangdinhphucat.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/24173867224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charmingcurls.se/upload/file/31029014208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjatupornservices.com/file_media/file_image/file/topuvolofaxafesekogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technok.cz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b7f0a9668d9deeaaeff629808feb8fe/xunowozedimilej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoscuolemontagna.it/userfiles/files/12157586848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/69872907996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepainter.asia/upload/files/dodidugakadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutamobilya.com/images_upload/files/65127236149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m0h287gslq41gh7li3cuatn876/71996322709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osikovo.eu/webroot/img/content/files/53621180535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjatupornserviceIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+emerald+green+romPDF 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_off0000af86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF86 10324 bytes
SHA-256: b95162dfc65701068f5902217e49c6361104815f21e6a9fe5864aa84e39541c8
font_01_sfnt_off0000c685.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC685 15420 bytes
SHA-256: 7d4e3250aa9d064417fcfd627ec733dbba70552631e91603a95ae08eb0992ad5
font_02_sfnt_off0000ee0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1