Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0291f1f66c21b39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-25 09:42:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 70c1ec803e50f0313205fad77d52f270 SHA-1: a5f69f3ef84f86b934108c33ed5ec850b729ba7d SHA-256: d0291f1f66c21b397db51374344a0e62e9df099e87494eb587a78f44883e112d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9916

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://inwebjor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=i+theatre+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://minhvuongthuphap.com/upload/ck/files/93613518968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://krainaogrodow.eu/zdjecia/fck/file/26027569045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czytamzezrozumieniem.pl/userfiles/file/gubedemixufakuxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentdorottyapatika.hu/files/74524618429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceccarmehedinti.ro/userfiles/file/20063910237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ewtch.com/upload/files/88773889079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websurin.net/UserFiles/File/vipagoxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161485d25e9b9a---nedawogojewobivaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumahbaruku.com/contents/files/62206759503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecableapp.com/FCKeditor/FCKimgUpload/file/fufudigutovidubage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161426fd9e6a45---51201441205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faresaldabbous.com/uploads/file/49983138868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eventaipei.com/upload/files/fifujutugul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021092103000857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ariogalospspc.lt/userfiles/file/51338706735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/11230487490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gullyracing.it/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31628784371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orenprom.com/img/account/file/tenazikifoderan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sintasyapi.com/img/userfiles/file/sesikafonemol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfhconsultancy.nl/userfiles/files/lamubefefisofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vervesimuhub.com/userfiles/file/jewibakegafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiopiergentili.it/userfiles/files/29799040089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613baab32e4e0---88244521291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.red/yamituki-n/uploads/files/zuzuxilesarapinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nagymester.com/userfiles/file/48534773577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28492632669.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_off0000b5dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDF2 9864 bytes
SHA-256: 62960ad644219058e63faa8b9261864d3d253b963da0f5b4fae787abaa0a665a
font_02_sfnt_off0000e3c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3C8 17100 bytes
SHA-256: df6fa414ee3505970b7260e56219cc38b56f8127c64432968a794e4ba1917064