Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d641c3a9d12b3f2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-03 03:56:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: c5ae1f795f5ffbd78201363c95710ba1 SHA-1: afdb18cfa6fae89842174d29db97f02363f96965 SHA-256: d641c3a9d12b3f2a5d808482890f6f5aa49f9d1d2d740659429b31728393d719
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to disposable or compromised hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The embedded URLs and the structure suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/96219808207.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://noddy.nu/images/file/33907202190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef69b5fb3e---64351005506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ethnicminorities.heephong.org/ethnicminorities/cmsadmin/ckfinder/files/tozixazat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rld-carbon.ru/file/xuritasizewakij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de8344be575a22c9a263b8b602bd61b9/loritolalipesigomikop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lmtnfak75duhhfl0v5dn8ast4pmtgae3/93674557802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/zoruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deopendeur.org/imgUser/file/72452828049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/62da4f9d2de69520ef1543b1199c70b4/57347454220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amghanoi.com/images/ckeditor/files/bopad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://josephfellerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/robabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ea2ce151f---sanipasufip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iycadana.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/in0g9tqphojghruo4hjbu8rr50/potobawovisawipexopavanav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16102de99d046f---banobezikadefifaburebirab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c94962d1af8---runowagetanaxisavemalulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d91ec4edc1---dasojunawulezurome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hjgrsh6qrn0lf7kjab9a9dapvm/lobunerakisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/55777169476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desiaussies.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/xitegabakufefewukodunotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turhantur.com/turhantur/files/sulavevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaidequipment.com/public_html/userfiles/file/70576851340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1c466edb9ff375b56d52eea0196334c0/fowulurodunosexunuzaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160735fb3ae055---64701670714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldengrowers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0845f38d32e0ee3d7a0659bb370b0c70/32114734873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=introduction+to+theory+of+computer+science+pdfPDF 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_off0000ee72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010684.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10684 18320 bytes
SHA-256: 12391f951b73f34cb9516ac8a8096810d14fadf6b78f202e0d91f455f9cd052b
font_02_sfnt_off00013631.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13631 10844 bytes
SHA-256: a09ae8d8541cfaeac24ad90a18ea868fb64e9df18a901877212e6845026fc89e