Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1340831ae5d8d43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-09-26 18:48:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5408e0e4a5330f58bc2ea978f4c995d2 SHA-1: 7ec7bd14119b76574ece8e74bf322f660ad57184 SHA-256: d1340831ae5d8d4388b69834256363bb9480477890b6efe0b0ad207bc6332b6e
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised or disposable hosting domains, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly suggests an attempt to direct users to external, potentially harmful, resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://ozmutludokum.com/userfiles/file/vegawotojubab.pdf
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353271b579e---63176365037.pdf
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/jigubufoseralopod.pdf
    • http://quangcaosmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/17481193020.pdf
    • http://sbsedupatti.com/sbsedupatti/userfiles/file/37133986578.pdf
    • http://tolaniprojects.com/userfiles/file/tobelomamaj.pdf
    • http://chochosanencino.com/uploads/files/92148315307.pdf
    • http://machinegroup.ru/img/outer/files/wawugaviza.pdf
    • https://solener.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91757158887.pdf
    • https://leise.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fixazibijimujenog.pdf
    • http://mstreatmentadvances.com/userfiles/files/retuwaragowafizekesigigew.pdf
    • http://agilesolutions.in/uploads/78670770718.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinikkadikoy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388a3f9f6a4---78904071268.pdf
    • http://mega.kz/media/upload/files/92062893822.pdf
    • http://library.nesdb.go.th/ic/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/betitiwo.pdf
    • https://kangaroovietuc.vn/webroot/img/files/kagalun.pdf
    • http://ukonlinedirect.com/userfiles/files/daxikuxom.pdf
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d4d9ec7f13---50421630068.pdf
    • http://medianet2000.net/amm_prod/image_news_popup/file/63465608336.pdf
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8096667599.pdf
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f6239ef145---56830680180.pdf
    • http://jamoncup.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c1b095194f---jusurovinakuji.pdf
    • https://www.sonorisation-auxerre.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rerukubavedewo.pdf
    • http://zae.me/datafiles/file/86461786104.pdf
    • http://henskeschildersbedrijf.nl/upload/guliruluzogiruvenufuwema.pdf
    • https://www.costaverde.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b382e0ab84---sawuxoxuleni.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=run+3+88
    • 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_off0000bc62.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC62 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d478.bin
93c4f19d073e7d1dbae850c2896d23b4812c67a7a87983750b1395fbfa1bd36d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD478 9708 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9ad.bin
7b91d3778664d67b97501326c4b54888fdad14ff422a6f87b9df2f117053af27
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9AD 20052 bytes