Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c94c767a6af570f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:43:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 83cf43bd97e623b23f82e77699e799f3 SHA-1: d7aff2c404d98c9d1a2fe04a730f2dab529c0324 SHA-256: c94c767a6af570f9c3790820d7078204ff5316c8a717caa7f3ce2701bc75244a
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. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the link farm and the detection as a trojan implies potential for further malicious activity, such as downloading second-stage payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://szkolka-wiercioch.pl/files/file/62319291105.pdf
    • http://malir-naterac.info/UserFiles/File/96658170734.pdf
    • http://magiepourenfants.com/images/mediamanager/file/69820419391.pdf
    • http://sieuthimaynhapkhau.com/upload/files/38685422853.pdf
    • https://southafricapools.com/contents/files/82979091385.pdf
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/zegoxexunojetivapawuwu.pdf
    • http://dayou.tw/uploadpic/files/202109121306373552.pdf
    • https://larioenergy.net/uploads/file/texabewagekujupubobakif.pdf
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d15515ff54---53202230732.pdf
    • http://chongthamnguoc.vn/img/files/63235787806.pdf
    • http://artbaget.net/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nakuxekufowevugusujinil.pdf
    • https://renhedc.com/uploads/files/202109061303199879.pdf
    • http://ues-rb.ru/themes/ues-rb.ru/files/watizenotawase.pdf
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/32772215915.pdf
    • https://xn--1--8kcai1ck2bs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a13fe997502c8a991531c631bad173e/kijijoxukowodufidijudewe.pdf
    • https://gruppopolidori.com/upload/image/file/rimalafivakasudokomegasi.pdf
    • https://catequesisnavarra.org/guiarte_userfiles/files/jovofipolef.pdf
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146744f1d06d---fopurutubunejibanovebu.pdf
    • http://3q1p.com/upload/file/210908051535400127vzlzowy26483.pdf
    • https://hzautomatisering.nl/userfiles/file/gabodulizikanujafatafijez.pdf
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g509g2nabsq9gpqmiesqo3svh1/80589670818.pdf
    • https://giant-nano.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/power.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=restore+foto+yang+terhapus+di+android
    • 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_off0000d628.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD628 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee3f.bin
fb4fb7176a57848932cf398af79c077b317c7866a59c65a12b0b601bf726ca87
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE3F 10992 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001078c.bin
fd40b5511d95bdd2ae956d6015497d9a821e94320f0eded1b1d5739189e37bac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078C 16284 bytes