Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d962a6cecaab66e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 11:08:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8fee3e06d515fba3c0b93b278660c474 SHA-1: c5cca8d7b5fae09bafc369c3c90a039fe55d0f15 SHA-256: d962a6cecaab66e591a9bb00a58eeaaae4070b66edaee0787b9434d9de0284a8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, several of which point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a potential phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://godparents4tz.org/home/god/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85024196793.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://kop-trans.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/lowosuvemezevujiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a95ed78e320231f23a219ef43820cec8/fubujug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a7919186f---17256409629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c0b362cbd8---22631703769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onecre.com/images/content/files/xikobogevivutozar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/xolubemogisinirow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roycraft.ca/userfiles/file/lulatanin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linklandhotels.com/upfile/editor/files/94036411729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiensa.com/UserFiles/File/diwofujanolilisalumiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ferien-in-zahren.de/images/file/47600406034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilonew.tasksplan.com/userfiles/files/9318479223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chelseafoodmart.com/uploads/files/36992622441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aylabawadi.ae/userfiles/file/polaneze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hj-bouwt.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161316a0e203f4---46446516438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korankertas.com/contents/files/sevede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariacene.com/userfiles/files/99154784195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sudeoksa.org/userfiles/file/20210907092132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipea.kr/userData/board/file/nofakuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artistprasanna.com/userfiles/file/wepixiwanevamulevisamivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adikmanis.com/contents/files/20083022837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquariumfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/067f3634aef14d1766d55ebe1bd4e8ca/20142211925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aeternoplanning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jupijejeriw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girl0229960192.com/upload/users/files/letipatubipelozokexaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lrm.mcdonalds.ua/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13420529369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=daftar+harga+hp+samsung+galaxy+j7PDF 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_off0000d9c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9C8 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 0c9a7ddb533306c85bf898725d8ba083387e27172b8da8e10f82b48751d7d8ea
font_01_sfnt_off0000f325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF325 17092 bytes
SHA-256: ef847499ef399040bba761af1e6b383473c4c3ded0cddc6437fde6e8b0b8caf8
font_02_sfnt_off00011fc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1