Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd1fab4a8618277c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 11:38:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: b4d06a3c3d96be568e66e75bcf0507d5 SHA-1: a43b4da9d6a43298dbbc5e002d818ad5c970610a SHA-256: cd1fab4a8618277c2d25f8c6ba564ae8679dfc71a6ec627e91ed2afd52547541
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress upload storage. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs suggests an attempt at SEO manipulation or tracking user engagement with potentially malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+convert+audio+to+video+in+android PDF link annotation
    • http://goang-hann.com/uploads/files/202109191323581925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seowonbattery.com/files/fckeditor/file/1146794557613ae002cf941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inannamsao.com/uploads/files/fabodupabawusiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tktravelkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_C1929DEF3AD5D62B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thuaphatlaihoanghuy.com/uploads/files/wutijore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mannadey.in/FCKeditor/file/zowefilikuvemol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhiminhhien.com/media/ftp/file/93990795344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safehouseservices.in/fckfiles/file/15007259976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjatupornservices.com/file_media/file_image/file/99507941408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.optionassurance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130c1a27a8b4---soxoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.loisirs-auto-occasion.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75120575135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabuksusu2.com/contents/files/gaxirapojoxuvutokutozorim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shbaicun.com/userfiles/file/2021091215183873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuhua.tumujike.com/assets/upload/files/202109181626106480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f0227198f180843a83eaf438cb9389c/janewomarafivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamarchesainterita.be/lamarchesainterita/imgdb/news/files/26287990904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142aac92ec2c---43108408439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ead0672f7e---10156722744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anne-berger.de/sites/anne-berger.de/files/fkcfile/81856747180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palakkadtourism.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69438955292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretruc.com/media/ftp/file/50720272673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chapelguild.com/images/usr/19506734481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614682cf40749---barukurazaxapaxovuletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianklein.eu/Quansis/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bopezizadaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esterkins.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17044441635.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_off0000b428.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB428 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC3F 10392 bytes
SHA-256: 2c1668e897aca6e8da6623f154289de683dcc1a785c902cd762a49c69a3cba29
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3DC 15436 bytes
SHA-256: fafa7ecb5b626c6e65e1831d7963d7eba12b5f8bf8e0931da9d9357dbc109588