Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf931117fa703524…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-23 16:43:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: aea180c42066521c9f22a655ee3ab58b SHA-1: 8f76c8ca32af3177b87605ca31a4454828a71dfe SHA-256: cf931117fa703524392470c3663fee4bde7da2dc18acffe44cd8f768aa7eeabb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The numerous embedded URLs point to a link farm hosted on disposable domains and compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of many external links indicates an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=wifi+settings+on+android PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--9w3b270a7kf.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vulefokulesomesugixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazraeir.com/images/upload/files/59241706892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shrlie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-20/20210920162800429620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dauglita.lt/components/com_mijoshop/opencart/image/data/files/36428817145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lux-ride.com/home/u4-6pzgszajsb5u/www/lux-ride.com/public_html/ckeditortest_WORKING/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42735818381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podiummoda.ru/userfiles/file/xonemidoxujodekodekufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://consade.com/userfiles/file/36304855828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-union05.ru/files/file/potujojopik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i25hu0endlf9kujne0f9qbg9j0/20498319276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tttinox.com/upload/userfiles/files/20746806860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sportis.com/images/upload/zojusexizuwetozepor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitacasa.it/images/file/lawixidurajubutogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maksimetall.ru/files/30464845531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nacionalequipamentos.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/81870822110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e71d2f91ee9845ccde09bfdf10e80a7a/5020378159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/fenivuzasimuvano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bloomlight.pl/_bloom/file/67766042790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etcad.net/np/upfile/file/55529954637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h04ydivan.ru/userfiles/file/zetejimijojola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/lafotifom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/gozemevepedijoxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plentis.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/volilewibunamamaxenaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7844b0183b960d78dc34dbfe41775b58/97803273361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzeiger.com/userfiles/file/kukodopoz.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_off0000d71c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD71C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF33 10476 bytes
SHA-256: d6b5a654dd01f8c54c1f79b3faa24df1ba8f451c61706bf521fddae6e80eb8cc
font_02_sfnt_off000106f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106F9 17988 bytes
SHA-256: 2e5808d7b0a1eba7e55ec13ff9c13e9622adf05079334a8f49550b29cedf2240