Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7dad29acffc9a6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-09 21:08:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 120eb8c87e9918c3deff9b058bad3969 SHA-1: ab6b002919ebac95938d06d0d3a9d682c7423bba SHA-256: d7dad29acffc9a6f82d303eee48809ad356350562d1288efac33ec1c695ac542
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these link farms and the overall detection as a phishing trojan strongly suggest an attack pattern aimed at user deception and potential malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://sitoad.com/bbqjoekey/files/202109060845317951.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhaxuongbinhduong.com/upload/files/46826279370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cascatai.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37218761390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phunphu.com/userfiles/file/wosof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahjygjg.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902010907936386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapaliinsaat.net/file/wupidolonuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chsins.tw/uploads/files/202109030456326090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babyshelter.net/assets/upload/files/bufumebezuxojokenemonep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132cfdd27e12---rovux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trieuduong.com/images/Download/50972071314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunwisechem.com/Uploadfiles/files/51903799503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullerton.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/65220333345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae3c75cb086557d685db1e8e3fa8f17b/10532804244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app0.linkeo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kapijutiwojosunuzorexezep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fu-xin.tw/uploads/files/202109050651201707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/70020543127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innotack.com/userfiles/file/jopotuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htfcompact.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/abb51fc087f7b9782a87d4fc23837eba/takajabobaxifebewukenapuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemicilojistik.com/userfiles/upload/file/rikafafasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relaxzenter.com/uploads/files/dexedikolorir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mutitar.com/user_img/files/1334649403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weboonline.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37477453904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=huawei+ascend+g600+android+updatePDF 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_off0000dbbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D4 11108 bytes
SHA-256: a4ed1b8b59ac437afd8bd675842fdefa422076b98bdb59595d765002a4a7c63b
font_02_sfnt_off00010da3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DA3 17540 bytes
SHA-256: c3377b62584c8e9ff3c8f3f5e33320cbe901afa8d8a39b20d32f811f87a180ea