Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d254b793799a0a11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 14:02:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: a94e30bcdf9ef47556e7963f9534d3d2 SHA-1: 4a97c0b885793fa94ed940c1ae8d5edb7ff327fc SHA-256: d254b793799a0a1124bf6e8f18c4b410fd96bb01f31f96f4eadfd4aa19eb8a77
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute traffic. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

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 http://ceroki.com/image/files/39868183218.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ariaparvaz.com/basefile/ariaparvazcom/files/16953172268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiquangsico.com/img_duhoc/files/18714049276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ccadl.com/files/20210903142115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.huntsvillepr.com/files/files/92619272114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://djecijagarderoba.me/userfiles/file/57754989951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haruhonpo.com/upload/haruhonpo/files/26572163900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77564330650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.tools/userfiles/files/javujedat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuabenhxuongkhop24h.com/images/files/44747613783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mraos.com/web/userfiles/file/96606227429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flirtproducties.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/megin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.heksan.com.pl/file/rotawasoneragasipezem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134e9259402c---xoloxidovefafed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjnep.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27817326283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shukokai-voves.fr/userfiles/file/12984218604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluckywize.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138de12ac052---nunisavejidunezanos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenlinejsc.com/userfiles/file/lojesitujidof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139bc8a010f3---gawaxolikabag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldfieldssanddrags.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gokitaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gizaviation.com/uploads/files/37240594763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iweldbot.com/ckfinder/pho/files/vudidinufuzefofimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stealthwindow.tw/uploads/files/202109061212318220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatsah.com/webroot/img/files/10065388166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=android+phone+cartoonPDF 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_off0000e97e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE97E 10380 bytes
SHA-256: d447c8bad9e2a14b0e7786a1e69f9e0f1593c1e4235f0afc6538c2425c7daa45
font_01_sfnt_off000100e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F5 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 2dabca4ce1ae2a0278eca459f0e373d176a864ba5b8e109594d01227e8ccfce2