Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1607f39d1440bf0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 12:58:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: c69bf82ae702c28f28e07521d9984685 SHA-1: c44d7e0c204435e9c3beffc59fd255c28e83697a SHA-256: d1607f39d1440bf011e9474e8cf752400bbeec47c6197b0fbd6caffd1b83574c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the presence of a link farm pointing to various domains, some of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous URLs suggests an attempt to direct users to external resources, likely for downloading further malicious content or phishing for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+hd+video+downloader+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://anindecor.pl/files/file/dubulinow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cserepakcio.hu/xdata/file/nawujaberipimofej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autoset66.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79166548112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaghhaztbcd1agjgbccsgfftf.xn--p1ai/pict/file/45768836514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solidpractise.com/files/userfiles/file/6400549001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wx-bm.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109140101238435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reedxtrainternational.com/uploads/pages/file/ripesoduzurageviso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sas.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50335793449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatsah.com/webroot/img/files/vekoleririgumifumixowejuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deycaterers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/japipemubebuvugabukoxem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjt1.org/upload/files/97959504180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postelezmasivu-ostrava.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43437591362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reliancefla.com/admin/images/file/90199135796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/44582456406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613735266e012---14046695441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdermusavirlik.net/userfiles/file/20366275468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/36561510728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbhg8e7rb4mglum58g8d2jva62/54206388525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-soar.com/userfiles/file/refibiwesapimowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aiwatopup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/raberikagotapebeligi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tries.cz/media/images/upload/file/xivakofaxolesuren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinetalk.jp/app/webroot/img/fckfiles/file/vewodavurarojejosenurum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseafoodmart.com/uploads/files/58686378690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caacoding.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d92214a1f0---safupoxotofeluso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/34124372120.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_off0000e024.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE024 10468 bytes
SHA-256: a9cb2b33c435f27dec6400a85c1dfa55c3e9c64128617b0689a0cfbcb94b1948
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7CB 17816 bytes
SHA-256: 0461dced46a6f00b71868ad191721756521f61129d3248ee8ca831d5c3c4a195
font_02_sfnt_off000125b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x125B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1