Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d01dfa696ab8b943…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.8 KB Created: 2021-10-19 12:12:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: ca349e0f37bcf96bcc3738a5c28583f7 SHA-1: ae3c15127765e409fcc46280f6da1f1217a10371 SHA-256: d01dfa696ab8b9435880153a1733ab5e938834c576e72c63fdc98cd6bbf63917
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing operations.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://gz-theoutfit.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20211004211609.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/fidemofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phutungotodungha.com/img/files/79085713226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cli-kh.com/uploads/files/202109021004502563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eric-parnes.shortex.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/modemikesuravaxepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jyy.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20211004_183108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/xidaloxepigeto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worshipedia.net/sites/default/files/file/50996661621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-keber.de/images/file/pajuvifodexajel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watch62.ru/files/files/xixabugowubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alex-vasilkov.ru/images/wisdom/file/tisox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertoniamministrazione.it/bertoni/public/file/xakakiluvudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mouaumfb.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16160cc52a35d6---warumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonioruizabogados.es/userfiles/file/94235842215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://remont-elektro.eu/archiv/file/14074372283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webs.eusko-ikaskuntza.org/files/galeria/files/92667318493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tomasjelinek.com/img/pub/file/daredeminexixosezaxikij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/vadegipimozonedazam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wdnederland.nl/file/fivumofimikidutuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogwarts.ru/sites/default/files/file/20359705223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55ccbd85f37e6ef8a30a3064ae63cb06/gugabotaxave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613537e04bfae---joxubumebirejexofexazosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/wereregitunigabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aptekarynek.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/32141812061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://weldingplaza.com/files/file/muluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gsjc/~3/1hHberoKktI/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+get+auto+tune+efx+freePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0001187a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1187A 20020 bytes
SHA-256: 76894eb1348d3bc57222025d4af62f6ee76bc7e57c41bfedf66be7e14df1fd34
font_01_sfnt_off00014d7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D7C 10364 bytes
SHA-256: f23838a54d7d6f6837526e6c8d6179d72ce4349d28fe5998a314e40fa56fbb8b
font_02_sfnt_off00016519.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16519 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1