Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c712eda68fe38ba7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 08:57:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ecfaf9abbcbd325997602156ec396ab4 SHA-1: a9e1a020e4c828b17211f615f685ced58cb77b20 SHA-256: c712eda68fe38ba73aa2a0d1c0621c24073266160fbf7529af67ca59f9da9bae
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://rurisnet.org/images/file/82113926478.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://toananhmedical.com/uploads/files/titosuvikojujavusutefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/zozuzobilanaxulifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e29459501559d8d84aa1cc51520c1dab/sigozuzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehoron21.mn/uploads/files/54271931358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://historico.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44048179141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://31kouqiang.com/userfiles/file/1632307040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soi.icami.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28979785843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613719e4c91d9---69526475141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cyclad.org/UserFiles/file/98805603884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbibepnhahang.net/media/files/pixusodejijixesedusux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terracetemayonetim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gikguamerica.com/userfiles/file/68883630859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://millersexpress.com/userfiles/file/lasorefomududaverapizota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/19c5a95b125a3c875383705b06f39a5a/wubofuwofapofivupokires.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3026fe92c9acea554d7964d1863dba53/xazotofogiwoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spvi.cn/filespath/files/20210906220304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sky1981.com/asset/uploads/files/5561769265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thefutureofgolf.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161311de0068b1---51181577066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busangh.com/attfile/fckimg/file///20210906105556_730168823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xageunion.com/userfiles/file/94535919244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/44642833301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=cheat+codes+for+nba+2k20PDF 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_off0000c02a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC02A 17484 bytes
SHA-256: f461a80f3a379259ada515671bda5fa7628379ddc05f2aae22c85e98d495954b
font_01_sfnt_off0000eda1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDA1 10940 bytes
SHA-256: 890d091a2194a92a8b78db1a31bd09a2e59ffb97421ab8d78f66da7e6a0d5b11
font_02_sfnt_off00010707.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10707 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1