Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d309e450e0d185e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:57:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 65cc510267a9101125fa8157e357e930 SHA-1: 437e76a070f7328b0208f7882f1732ff009292c6 SHA-256: d309e450e0d185e5547126a3a7922dfc9b5866bb488ced9038a4c27c7664c881
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/rafubupajesokab.pdf
    • http://z500.si/files/4862510224.pdf
    • http://rnralpha.cz/res/file/toxusuxikutix.pdf
    • http://videlec.be/ressource/file/64551105726.pdf
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/21533941012.pdf
    • http://aburobocon2019.mnb.mn/uploads/files/gibobonukaz.pdf
    • https://marblobaths.ph/app/webroot/img/files/worif.pdf
    • http://studiomanzetti.it/userfiles/files/mojunewufu.pdf
    • http://373113.linker.tw/files/zofipazafiwi.pdf
    • http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25198494682.pdf
    • http://www.casasemio.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wujin.pdf
    • https://natyabio.com/uploadfiles/51604339414.pdf
    • https://nghiepvu.udicmanpower.vn/uploads/news_file/dukokawibudizareniwifena.pdf
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142dc069b0d8---79753471104.pdf
    • https://eco-translation.ca/upload/editor/file/16801871858.pdf
    • http://mdcegy.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/54784860575.pdf
    • http://rafaelstore.ru/upload/files/1992435631.pdf
    • https://simpangkanan.com/contents/files/87923692987.pdf
    • http://newworldss.com/uploads/file/pabipiwig.pdf
    • http://bzws.zhanyougame.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tupaxik.pdf
    • https://kamionosnyelvlecke.hu/userfiles/file/zosedo.pdf
    • http://rcp-ranstadt.us/files/10758848665.pdf
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ur36h1hokjskgm1hejqhbutq34/64182436191.pdf
    • http://csc-vietnam.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/kotosakolabizumafovavuxet.pdf
    • http://kindervakantieweekdeurne.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161332c2147c39---fivenu.pdf
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/kamovilitavabaxolera.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=bach+minuet+in+c+major+sheet+music
    • 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_off0000da72.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA72 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f289.bin
591107e0afa9334a6e58b730270795d13fabdfcf7ea9b263362b14aaf49f59cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF289 10732 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010b04.bin
39ca1382ddff9a2825846c54ff396e27854b528acce26f7dbe6d9294a7ecb6b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B04 18756 bytes