Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dafba85c9149a72a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 06:59:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 02dba544bbd918d0e562074be806420b SHA-1: d31cc7e556a106b8cb0dbe7ed1740a78726a4543 SHA-256: dafba85c9149a72a7a0294f142202dbd4c7398f0b748065304ede89d3888e41a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the heuristic firings strongly suggest an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials.

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://feniks9.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91272355141.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://renfrewareahealthvillage.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/litabigesojogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stluciachamber.org/uploadedImages/contentImg/file/pasaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgone.kr/userfiles/file/20210907053211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chengzechem.com/upload/files/5126148786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dekleinewerf.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dc48ba342b---zomatexepufaremonap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://equipociclistaugeraga.com/ciclistas/userfiles/file/35973078605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinhhangvien.com/upload/files/57666210326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.com/file/97407977168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kocay.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cd035246ae---rujovidul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jadeite.ru/images/file/tasiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glamweddingdesign.com/userfiles/file/wefiliwaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dataprint.ie/uploads/file/61307541488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/pojusejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://msslink.ru/userfiles/files/95210911360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecniconuti.it/userfiles/files/44873530893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clearspace-design.com/CKEdit/upload/files/52177726527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcoquimicos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44480887222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheliabinsk.realxenon.ru/uploads/files/wegurulokexowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://personalloan2u.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2335c0a759da9bcdfa45ce55caa41ea9/jatatabarujelewerirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbazainville.org/userfiles/file/9464509069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijinmotor.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/zutiwuramajavatufojajur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaelen.it/userfiles/files/petajaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=gradle+deploy+to+artifactoryPDF 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_off0000b2b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2B7 15348 bytes
SHA-256: 7db29bd87f29cd4b27e0bb32f87d1245eb27b44e0f31952b54518001c63e886f
font_01_sfnt_off0000d990.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD990 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 251c1f1f54bdbb8c6ab03fb7b19a3fd2495d4ff7690ab2b2e48ae59db7846ed8
font_02_sfnt_off0000f190.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF190 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1