Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d016ba8f8a88ace0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 02:52:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: acd6a6ad022553f7e9daeb34be232d54 SHA-1: 210e8bd1992eeea61b0ecee67f5bc5cadbef0a7e SHA-256: d016ba8f8a88ace0fe438ea9a38745c0e418133b99d6b04cbf65c8d61b16e4e3
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of an advance-fee scam. It contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on various domains, some of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of PDF link farms and the nature of the detected scam suggest a phishing or social engineering attack vector, likely initiated via spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name/files/8192792708.pdf
    • https://signos.larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/lafutugow.pdf
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/file/8830266774.pdf
    • http://jowinbio.com/upload/files/202109120518155217.pdf
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae625d59217b53f39c8f17dfe4e4c3b5/sobumigipipezopox.pdf
    • http://sanfrancescovet.com/userfiles/files/lixatimabefapanasita.pdf
    • https://ashasuchikala.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sonenewexuseluteme.pdf
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2hhpq6e83e0t1ipcdisplb0l8n/74686552557.pdf
    • http://gorod-r.com/userfiles/file/xafikisoxibu.pdf
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138e9c590d1d---72035523992.pdf
    • https://www.adoz.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bumoxulozagasexowivetej.pdf
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab51ae7c6cd28249c9931673480957cf/badezuzobudovoxosupow.pdf
    • http://appli-veolia.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9130780611.pdf
    • http://chapaconoticias.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/tafera.pdf
    • https://matrixx.lu/images/wusoxebinewaxo.pdf
    • http://www.hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46380380586.pdf
    • https://lapakunited.com/contents/files/duduwixadewikopadomax.pdf
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb01aa54b8d973ce2495f463d33ea4e5/32539191652.pdf
    • http://crystaltrade.hu/data/file/pasubas.pdf
    • https://www.cir.cloud/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ce01892a2---sulesodosetu.pdf
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/23484788475.pdf
    • https://choiceenergynetwork.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/987206d414ae57380420e7eb4913a822/76105661401.pdf
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cbba9e4e81---68685697470.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=insufficient+storage+android+phone
    • 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_off0000eadd.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEADD 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000102ef.bin
34b05973f39ce6d4ab4bee0c02dd055b84b1b7c091f0cc4947b256061b282869
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102EF 17832 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013177.bin
e549281767b238e606448fcdbb49a339c20bed618b82dcfbac618d1e3a2c9e62
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13177 10904 bytes