Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d697785189fecd3d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-23 21:03:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: a9a0b2717508e4f2f95684c6e174928d SHA-1: 25de500b864ea21bf5ea0debec8b7d12d3ba49e6 SHA-256: d697785189fecd3d59f7c7e32c69ef2bd6cf7d9a807f6b7030af5975fb0855ef
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links indicate an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/mukibavimoralivararido.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://artin-intranet.com/ckupload/files/xegejigapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://98ing.com/upload/ck/files/20210903_052916.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161446de433504---jiwotinalikenubatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gartenbaukoeln.de/uploads/files/63141523193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boekenwinkelindex.nl/images/uploads/25877382777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deewo.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141ece0a3fa4---xopidiwiporebimak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614caf253e7a6---torelimuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hahapediatric.com/uploads/files/202109092337242838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bbmnetlicitacoes.com.br/cms/ckfinder/upload/files/vukujewerujigobevalovosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventadeterrenosurbanos.com/userfiles/file/93201810157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cw-cut.com/uploads/file/gavirofurefopizinugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://7serve.org/userfiles/file/20210922202714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkbeauty.vn/luutru/files/rupejirema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://technestudio.eu/userfiles/files/xotij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przedszkolenisko.pl/userfiles/file/93662836309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://treasurehunterdetectors.solar-ovens.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57047669209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/4065972049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b372e8fbcc---66656870339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verredistri.fr/xmedia/file/xagikupejamavovajutaximu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iraneto.com/basefile/iranetocom/files/zotivinozojuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://areawifi.com/DESARROLLO/userfiles/files/59840218863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snoman.mb.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuliroxonasojatokeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brillimet.com/uploads/files/202109230800244865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/54758732809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=must+have+android+apps+in+indiaPDF 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_off0000e7f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7F2 10604 bytes
SHA-256: ec0d1dfa7583bb671450cd7445543ce29044e7eda019ade5e916c95d000a0fb9
font_01_sfnt_off00010024.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10024 18056 bytes
SHA-256: f13b4930503bb087641e852009be1e71a7382dc7b474e5ddd0eef7633548b325
font_02_sfnt_off00012f1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1