Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d208acf3ff1e5db5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-10-04 05:44:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 30c21b8c619d927f317e4ea446728581 SHA-1: 563adfaa38e2b6585f7878519a61971256a415c7 SHA-256: d208acf3ff1e5db5c438aee110d74132a1d2b86013d4e5ce48d4e441257806e3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified the document as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://jyjwqj.com/uploadfile/file///2021091802280882.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://master-vin.ru/files/file/zajexad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/969608197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20185633491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burragebrothers.net/demo/jolie/beta/userfiles/files/76894792197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjcounsel.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/juwuwediporufoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///13193375874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partiaweb.com/upload/files/wurivivivagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://exihomes.com/userfiles/files/voximumuligexixuzisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rhondadejean.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zajugigadopetusopif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stef-nancy.fr/upload/document/fowizoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zamgph.com/uploads/file/250433416973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bevillelecomte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4865259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://morganmethod.com/ci/userfiles/files/33373989942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soft-pro.hr/upload/datoteke/29168837483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vagtteam.dk/userfiles/Files/desemoradoxoziradoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hycxchina.com/filespath/files/20210918103757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronospan-mofa-hungary.hu/editor_up/87127505279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jucadent.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rodamoziru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d13796276389be04807bec2b1d82fa66/watudekegonen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615a5fed55ff7---tidulebonomipudakigimefiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineerindia.com/admin/userfiles/file/6574000616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/55170436304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.darrellstuckey.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161526afab62d3---23672829971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=sql+server+try+catch+rollbackPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b0c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0C7 16744 bytes
SHA-256: b6a66dd7836eb89f61badab91ac5ebafca02b6271599328786cce8c75bbdc414
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBB5 10764 bytes
SHA-256: b5587bfcecf734a8bf1d07f77b2643502da270623f05232000ca48410382d630
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4B5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1