Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 daa949a0b923306c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 13:01:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b874fa78574ac3d683cad7d4c9f42fa5 SHA-1: cf52176c7bd35722b91e2b35947ca69960e9c11a SHA-256: daa949a0b923306cb8c5db272cb56e0737365e4e5f5f43f37dd8b7e5582e9e48
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=toca+hair+salon+1+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://almoheetmanpower.com/public_html/userfiles/file/talitufefakolumosigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnk.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bca669468a---fidesiluxedufosixuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drivingschoolofnorthtexas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395909bc5dd---2722445909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109011100077111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjavc.com/filespath/files/20210906050758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.syrahresources.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiwopugurefixobanimepog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozdoby-betonowe21.pl/Upload/file/15664391491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srtcivilnorth.com/ckeditor_file/files/wigalinimimekozijapefuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ariogalospspc.lt/userfiles/file/51338706735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/10662419847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-apartments.pl/data/pages/45321507520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://preprodpcb.com/userfiles/files/42161067601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://behtarinekhodetbash.com/files/files/zipumag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheers-gifts.com/userfiles/69902562436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elazentrale.de/images/uploaded/file/89597484669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lawyerupsmart.com/tempimg/file/79711270851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613685c405d24---22899607188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bnblspecialities.com/userfiles/files/83784999605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341f95c63b6---18857828117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://choinka4x4.org/cms/files/file/borefiniwoxapumefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chhattisgarhsanskritboard.in/sharpinstitute/images/files/4697566457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuchina.org/userfiles/file/69156634456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saringkarnwood.com/UserFiles/file/91098985046.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b453.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB453 16352 bytes
SHA-256: 9c09c88ae8c16bff84111354316359d021997fb4aad4f8972c10b81994a3a1b4
font_01_sfnt_off0000cabb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCABB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e2cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2CD 17956 bytes
SHA-256: 8e3209052dd79eb957feaf4890ad2fe2e3cbbd4ede620816bb51977cc3cfb6e0
font_03_sfnt_off000110f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110F6 10348 bytes
SHA-256: 672dcafa94212674c8bf11fc96c282ecfcad819bf3cbaffddf2434ff9399f002

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