Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d082f0af784175fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 13:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 99b81b2328c2420f08673183136fee03 SHA-1: 6feb738e2e3dbd581f077930ae8bd10733f40b96 SHA-256: d082f0af784175fedc38c9a4f02e62aefe7e9028bf91a3abe3745dd00dd65d84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. This pattern is often used to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malicious payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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 http://baldonimarcostudio.eu/userfiles/files/50368311881.pdf
    • http://zgic.ru/!upload/files/56978408664.pdf
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138ecf1c357e---surawurubobotitefomipur.pdf
    • http://trieuduong.com/images/Download/22401715793.pdf
    • https://szelvedojavitasmiskolc.hu/files/files/1290977421.pdf
    • https://enilubricant.hoakhanh.vn/uploads/image/files/mopojefub.pdf
    • https://goez1.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91401961686.pdf
    • https://mavachhaiphong.com/upload/files/57244976824.pdf
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/fizojamuwike.pdf
    • http://hzbaoyan.com/images/upload/File/tubodizoguturejalu.pdf
    • https://howardsteeves.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eefb83355b8978103394e70ae7b83f19/nufof.pdf
    • https://jaurrieta.net/USERFILES_JAURRIETA/files/50499805992.pdf
    • https://sdudyogtechnologies.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kowenodazo.pdf
    • http://gmtshipping.com/attachment/file/sokir.pdf
    • http://xn--66-6kc8bfmkmjd.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xudedu.pdf
    • https://tiguan-wiki.ru/file/bilanoxuvu.pdf
    • http://naplesredeals.com/userfiles/files/25041129921.pdf
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a5d36aedc2---61936765499.pdf
    • http://asavn.vn/uploads/userfiles/files/bovonoxizulekiroxaz.pdf
    • http://ned.ru/uploads/files/silowasexotinekakuwemadax.pdf
    • https://panelshock.com/userfiles/file/33084697662.pdf
    • https://maintogelonline2.bet/contents/files/17104342837.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=android+internal+storage+location
    • 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_off0000c141.bin
699725973550e3d40f7c685a28f374077797cd3132da1a78dde39138bc4b3ce8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC141 18236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0fc.bin
64f7bc847b1b1f06d471b0be6d07077e9e8ebb90af446cb9d1b81d6949ba511a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0FC 10524 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000108db.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108DB 16792 bytes