Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de707582277b2da1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-08 04:57:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 58c84a2eb5980f54307ebfaec9d05d49 SHA-1: e3996d3d9c76c5895f08bbb3fb8b6557a5689a71 SHA-256: de707582277b2da1e3ae61c1ecfc7b932c6d4112536a533d443779e7864e3e9c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to external websites. Several heuristics indicate that these links are part of a link farm, with some hosted on compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or redirecting users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://abrasco.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xofiwes.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7cae7ebbcc---kaxifawubokojidomotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planbmedia.hu/files/3081038664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wendi101.com/userfiles/file/67900272872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edmcenter.xyz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69376877192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dydlhx.com/upfiles/file///wixeledoninufas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/61243911140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jordanadams.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1241729873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japan-railpass.info/images/blog//file/vasokora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2e8e14fc5afd66ee0dcf64c22618473/22502122859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oticonshop.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72913600075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghioroiu.ro/sites/default/files/file/94040082000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbancollab.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/25846084640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://scapetime.net/images/website/user/files/59813711024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/zewofiwuteviradororope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esoftland.com/userfiles/file/2760850915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cochleartudaskozpont.hu/files/fusaxufumekisamikodanukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/vetonox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syntrend.critical.tw/upload/files/bifilawiwibus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a19222598d6---xagatepetoratifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cochu.net/resimler/files/fevikipagafamoputi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=analysis+of+wedlock+of+the+gods+pdfPDF 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_off0000e2f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2F5 11072 bytes
SHA-256: 77fa063865cb37e033dd7bb683dd2706aa7b377f4b323dd4fe868ecabf55ca08
font_01_sfnt_off0000fca6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCA6 17420 bytes
SHA-256: 40c7da263e56624fcb9d2bf5001c522d89bad9835fc3a2f2daf7da9671497783
font_02_sfnt_off0001293d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1293D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1