Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c242358b7adcdfa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-09-28 03:35:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ab3a3ecdf132aa1f6750024f3d0d6f5f SHA-1: 265b5c018bbda7144edb797917ad0813569a5f10 SHA-256: c242358b7adcdfa0e983a9f49c3387905f0b7ba0d6502394dbfdb492f037dc3c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs point to a malicious link farm designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://hondatayho.vn/images/ckeditor/files/tuzoxawumasezuwiworap.pdf
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a499cfa2af59fc3b9402c9562d0bb55c/kebezinabosefujodokak.pdf
    • https://educhina.mn/editor/files/15791433763.pdf
    • http://galettedesrois.hu/userfiles/file/fufikomari.pdf
    • https://sleepthai.com/piceditor/file/vigidudanobatugadofikub.pdf
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents/files/22498244995.pdf
    • http://studioassociatoemc.com/userfiles/files/65682585214.pdf
    • https://stephan-kratt.de/data/reiterhof/userfiles/file/pexidixeguruk.pdf
    • http://studiochiodo.eu/userfiles/files/9850201618.pdf
    • https://cytairtool.com/test/userfiles/file/20210911_e347e.pdf
    • http://tms-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wexojed.pdf
    • https://www.histoiresdegroupes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f01d19dd3c---rejijufusefag.pdf
    • http://mediacast.vn/ckeditor/upload/files/jemokabegavonivumabom.pdf
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e68ec6dd86---mepuzexajubul.pdf
    • http://cukrarnakolbaba.eu/obrazky/files/73672345585.pdf
    • https://12tiga.com/contents/files/pigonafodawopeme.pdf
    • https://graphicart.ro/fckfiles/file/26473336053.pdf
    • https://propbrains.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3210351e16090f546efdb955760330b7/70991022056.pdf
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/zalivowiroto.pdf
    • http://nasfthr.com/userfiles/file/pagiril.pdf
    • http://hoanggiaphatstone.com/upload/files/xijogov.pdf
    • http://nuestratierrapremios.com/campannas/file/85870690459.pdf
    • http://www.farmaciapenil.es/userfiles/files/fulapujugesumateranage.pdf
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146dcbf65014---41423143729.pdf
    • http://badischer-kunstverein.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nesebanu.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=go+goa+gone+full+movie+hd+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b752.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB752 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cf64.bin
3652a896fab9421dddffd7e55f3e4b07594d90e5fffe2792271ad344e599a3df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF64 16160 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8c5.bin
7b695d7ea888c32df559ec5ecfb00fcf205b6e5d7fdbe84b53631fcd53015bc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C5 10724 bytes