Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da06a351c32312e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:09:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 70c3a79a178952b41bb6883d81bba60f SHA-1: 56e4e76622733a84762caa56359fb8f14d94a245 SHA-256: da06a351c32312e55fe49ad2b7e72b33c315ba39440efaf4816f8e4c2f7663c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are designed as a link farm. Several of these links point to compromised WordPress upload storage, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to lead users to malicious content or further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+developer+volume+control PDF link annotation
    • https://hfbee.tw/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210913220848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viermaalh.nl/Bottesteyn/Site/afbeeldingen/file/sugekivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesrealsense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42333659110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxima-online.it/public/file/jisuvotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emeat.ru/var/files/bivigegodogagadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--72ca1bzcdf9cg5df4n5a8cei.com/userfiles/files/51918329153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nurugelexport.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19016137231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timebank.ru/sites/default/files/photos/pagefile/72283590907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/fikufowosamubisege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicomaglio.it/userfiles/files/45042893215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbeyoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/67313561717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613afff6ecf83---37903973066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.singchai.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/733354898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alistairmills.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31969540056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2osv9pt2jfpt.com/uploadfiles/files/60812196141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euskararenginkana.eus/files/galeria/files/sigemonajefoliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.horisunmauritius.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88ef45296876efe0da745814c5107449/52507573094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webspace.mysdam.net/images/newsletter/files/duvuvewisokowasura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/874950179761b4dfa738de820d56a021/80392759043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://locnuocvietmy.com/Images_upload/files/jifagukulemabevolesosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envisystem.com/upload/userfile/files/26394999223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1bet.com/contents/files/lenoxalisulefoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abcbyspu.net/ckfinder/images_store/files/xegudavolojiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aristi-trap.com/upload/users/files/lumuzop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archinfo.ru/uploads/file/80916471518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c2ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2EC 17228 bytes
SHA-256: 04eff3d84798c36c69be81fb4e2c3f1088a479b5582f496f6aefdadbcdf67801
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF92 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 4fdd6f9aabadd3e84aa24094062453e5623e197c9d68b55124b720de5b6fa413
font_02_sfnt_off00010762.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10762 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1