Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 daf2d7bb0a23e06d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-25 06:35:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 15be3418aa3b3dcd6327925cdd686b90 SHA-1: 44104be20490ccf1cb8f99660aa88e171dfdf2e8 SHA-256: daf2d7bb0a23e06d0b7c130427417cb3bdd407a84b8d4ee8ca1dddbc28da4a60
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, directing users to various compromised or disposable hosting sites, likely to facilitate the download of further malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF links on potentially compromised CMS uploads and SEO-manipulated domains supports this phishing and download lure attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://minlinart.com/archive/upload/files/nisakipidenegasixabete.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://parzenica-bialka.pl/userfiles/files/powenefeduzozawet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cjpharmtech.com/upload/files/52273017029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vugerumabagozomusumuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143cbc704dab---siwibakupirufataxide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velapower.com/glwh/UploadFile/file/2021092216574173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkaganjil.com/contents/files/pujuletoziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jagdrevier.hu/upload/images/file/66459436262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/bevazadojuxabudexalewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alnahamgroup.com/userfiles/file/99869075261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-ex.net/userfiles/file/topiperesokufosirolus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slesnick.net/userfiles/files/26438214604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///49053120083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/015faec2b0485e1c26c5bf3b2de5be1a/56793107088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b1d24d4c59---kixonukulonij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabinet-blin.fr/ressource/site-image/files/bevatore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iuoooo.com/filespath/files/20210919125955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecowaytechnologies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39421449984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinarioilprato.eu/userfiles/files/xukid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://delcinfo.ru/img/files/files/duvif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flapboxes.custompackageboxes.com/userfiles/files/27594548499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614210fba1a87---81352881349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/ligojoxarabedenokatenukil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=gta+v+download+no+verifyPDF 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_off0000b317.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB317 10484 bytes
SHA-256: fa7438fd4e6783d27d6b8b56984e668cf786c78a8314117a4fe6592c39a70f3c
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB21 17152 bytes
SHA-256: a41db8f4086511bce0d2e3fe0aae16292af458809c7b4fd80f44044b80758605
font_02_sfnt_off0000f6b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1