Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d142ea912167b196…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 18:49:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 27f25ea980ddeab9781eeeb467d39ef1 SHA-1: 2af2a24ee566492234f92fe247f3da224e1850bb SHA-256: d142ea912167b1964b7179ef632d60fce7137348874a5fc7fbfc7fd91e54e37d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV and ML classifiers strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites for further compromise.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://ph2020.org/FCKeditor/file/25479852272.pdf
    • http://geluidsadviesnederland.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57816630111.pdf
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161351754d9300---zuvolaroxa.pdf
    • http://qbcar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64097079979.pdf
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/29810137403.pdf
    • http://chizclean.ru/files/fck/file/93414852830.pdf
    • https://chaletsuenodesol.de/files/somapaz.pdf
    • http://combatkuntao.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rakutilibeke.pdf
    • https://villanakarin.com/userfiles/files/vulufopevuluwufafoz.pdf
    • http://www.homefacelifters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2d09f93e777b579704b4b0cd12f0c44a/pezuluvak.pdf
    • http://www.tramag.pl/upload/file/junawixikojobejis.pdf
    • http://aumnat2car.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/mexuwotorumagex.pdf
    • https://gamletaarnhuset.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f87dd9a135---folekitajafenowefenuze.pdf
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/73006895616.pdf
    • http://slovoveri.org/userfiles/zojajerevo.pdf
    • https://pnp-studio.com/fckeditorfiles/file/mivediduwajoselinapotax.pdf
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/68832294344.pdf
    • http://verzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/gadujexavad.pdf
    • http://vendsol.com/userfiles/file/jowori.pdf
    • http://emachn.com/data/attachment/file/lutemomifisa.pdf
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c459b33156---somoxirunokajul.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319fabe546a---joparojevedosuf.pdf
    • https://kamber.dk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d9862cb3e944da7fcacad01984dcc03e/linumavibuwotebapok.pdf
    • https://osiindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gogulalilasadamir.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=my+find+device+apk
    • 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_off0000d411.bin
62a33d1968b157a8617bd26c6d666aa1547114fd0451194d624d402783509c6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD411 17424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000100b4.bin
65e0247cf5ef024668d2e51ba98a776e888d7ef5ec2e2bdc7214fe8cdabab859
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B4 10348 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001182b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1182B 16792 bytes