Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d893f69755462162…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-08 09:27:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 29210f31e3e9e69abe5d1819efbe7406 SHA-1: 72f8b334f8b75ef317b5a36dbe01573aa42638dc SHA-256: d893f6975546216247fe70e7275f6162ec19d2df10fb69f7e5c04e7e8bd4d794
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan'. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous external URLs, many hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or disposable domains. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The presence of embedded URLs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9848

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://carolstoecker.com/clients/c/c6/c60e280709801842a26e47e23f21f170/File/bukiziteduludesino.pdf
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/20487542702.pdf
    • http://wowbond.com/upload/Fckeditor/file/tutapekekotutesowu.pdf
    • http://stellar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46916527363.pdf
    • http://naasschoolofmotoring.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/83123120701.pdf
    • http://buergerforum-tirol.at/file/52092899743.pdf
    • http://lempreintedubois.fr/userfiles/lempreintedubois.fr/file/dosusanup.pdf
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609555b60e411---pofekademebub.pdf
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/16599947109.pdf
    • https://feriaesotericadeatocha.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7d699e077---netuw.pdf
    • https://subarini.ro/mm/file/11415005329.pdf
    • http://dolphinkorea.com/files/files/lopidigetuxexovupagev.pdf
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083b082785e8---raribanidikev.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5f6ba7b521---23341912023.pdf
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8a68d80af---75214358639.pdf
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1e4b148277560d9bc28222ba5c80331/fubaruvarulusonobuvazidew.pdf
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082f67f697d6---76805725752.pdf
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074397e1dafe---52776962557.pdf
    • https://www.areatransfers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d70d1e0dfdd---wabewojurofajokifegoledi.pdf
    • http://hyundai-dongdo.vn/images/files/13306953101.pdf
    • http://kwik-it.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c509b71b9bb---80380574400.pdf
    • http://babywagen24.de/userfiles/file/nojaz.pdf
    • http://market-oborudovanie.ru/upload/file/56747718375.pdf
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160ba20bc4ada6---41534366974.pdf
    • https://pensionatiitalianiinportogallo.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7118705bd2b105bf5df6f5302548c82a/56291027267.pdf
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57910af3da3214c778ccb3922070150d/jatadow.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=clouds+and+thunderstorms
    • 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_off0000ee95.bin
2cddb09f5d46e6937167a1c073fb9e0fead86d0537ae31b68cd4df5c942032dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE95 10552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010679.bin
bbca33ccfe6cab7c592ac88c6a9dad4933473d160560ffa6199d31f0a69f1589
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10679 17504 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013492.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13492 16792 bytes