Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca04f1329fdd48ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-22 21:08:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: e65aeb880f7a039cbb9f4d7756704cfe SHA-1: 5e7d8dfff656c77e4dddb0cb5cf47dbd9f15eb94 SHA-256: ca04f1329fdd48ed2cdfe064a1b3b715bd213ab8e769ad46d83966dc5b0f91ed
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=make+android+look+like+ios+14 PDF link annotation
    • http://anquocrealty.com/uploads/image/files/magiragojemadevime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://massagetheory.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18f66abdc8bf000f8a177497673ab5aa/luvowedebezopuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mondoacquapiscine.com/userfiles/files/93917400710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvartira-zalog.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9744bca96b03f79cc9e811a96a51cfc/zujemunot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/60516429139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marblobaths.com/app/webroot/img/files/93574996444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.temaricerca.com/entry2013new/admindia/ckfinder/userfiles/files/luderirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sibaco.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66207935707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cartonwrappingmachine.com/userfiles/file/9078804132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4of100churchstreet.com/assets/media/files/vunasazevodilukuvorij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthibongda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fegulabilowunakarorubut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serting.eu/userfiles/files/49328225406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97010735224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613251febf4d2---59439849697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bacninhonline.com/webroot/img/files/41382571160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spalovnachemolak.sk/userfiles/file/kotupimolekijuwodigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicoligioni.com/userfiles/files/nawarepol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/69136792208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jubangh.com/Upload/FckUpload/20210918file///nidenikekemalatunuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdw-wolf.de/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kokiwudafeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ffb850d96be902e0567a6bca047affe/25833282943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tbff-bygg.se/img/files/92090319135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airconbank.com/upload/fckeditor/file/3832548404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maquinandoysubastando.com/dleyes/admin/fotos/file/mesejonaxajisifig.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_off0000db41.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB41 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f353.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF353 17212 bytes
SHA-256: d02bf653e6b01ea66e002bf933caf421e7894182b12e2c4aa9f828c4bd78f5a0
font_02_sfnt_off00012018.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12018 10356 bytes
SHA-256: f76adbd972ed9286e30047e1c1ada4296746258c50d1b13817945c27a832e556