Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d07f47bf9e93a613…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-24 06:08:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 774ff4b90688101a7689961620a8cd04 SHA-1: 68652c1043a2c874e5ae4ff5876b977ae81a5a16 SHA-256: d07f47bf9e93a61394c61c26654a91abbd8e9ab2c498df5c7a52e14e76d31047
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, directing users to numerous external URLs, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://angkortaxiservice.com/userfiles/file/wenamenilodoxexijazox.pdf
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3b590de2da81e9924f885e8bb8cd4228/vazako.pdf
    • http://xn----7sbqwxdbhblh2h.xn--p1ai/data/file/4981948473.pdf
    • http://gsoam.ge/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614709a406329---rufenawoneziwot.pdf
    • http://awfiowv.love-mrt.com/upload/files/42438084431.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133b114be797---2315941235.pdf
    • http://costruzionibulagna.it/userfiles/files/milolagarasilonerusogawe.pdf
    • http://tonyprins.nl/images/uploads/file/56656503353.pdf
    • http://husplaza.hu/editor_up/fusub.pdf
    • https://seger.cz/userfiles/file/68261977653.pdf
    • https://lotusmarinevn.com/upload/files/58949210918.pdf
    • https://rumusjitu.com/contents/files/ganoserimo.pdf
    • http://aburobocon2019.mnb.mn/uploads/files/mexonabunu.pdf
    • http://dija.lv/public/userfiles/file/gudasavatisatetafifived.pdf
    • https://ost-fogging.com/upload/files/ferifulagu.pdf
    • http://jl-vacuum.com/upload/files/84998859573.pdf
    • http://kennyre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16149201eae1a6---45495415349.pdf
    • https://churchosonline.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ad0685c4444b733f80f8dfa2e0c68d5/towinelonuvuzurafunizabu.pdf
    • http://furnitura-syndicat.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/jodiwoliboduxigubasax.pdf
    • http://maychaybocaocap.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/73013933722.pdf
    • http://xn--djr00fsyfv0o5qgy9u.com/filespath/files/20210914060328.pdf
    • http://autoscuolecasetta.it/userfiles/files/jufuwijokekexutisus.pdf
    • http://jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lexurivexabupepipimekines.pdf
    • https://ski-valloire.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sodijoraraxapaxusifode.pdf
    • http://esipro.fr/userfiles/file/44236920278.pdf
    • https://www.fishhabitatnetwork.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22898682357.pdf
    • http://opt-russtd.ru/data_center/upload_pictures/file/mopasa.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=app+sure+universal+remote
    • 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_off0000c51a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC51A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd2c.bin
352792d72fa6678c2491db63b2b311875b1e6b11c1f23bf43badb128316f9c69
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD2C 16576 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000107f2.bin
42b12e88705fc0fedee712ff1c0a7bf1f157d14252c678815b9974ce7cb5408f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107F2 10560 bytes