Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df1f9d75d6ccbfb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2021-07-26 19:54:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 900386c5f7e8c2acd21a7abf5127938c SHA-1: 04cfecfd1f066a9456d35208a6094292011e2e51 SHA-256: df1f9d75d6ccbfb5edaafe5253491928ed34ff342096e42b24145381ae0189b5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan variant. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, likely as part of a phishing campaign.

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 http://gps-tw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/21666152136.pdf
    • http://escolacaritas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f3294d433e---karimujolisiniralagegalar.pdf
    • http://palami.by/images/file/fibalexudotudogolemenowo.pdf
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160770e3846eaa---81698325284.pdf
    • http://chocoenglish.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/29587861879.pdf
    • https://puertoestereo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gpv9g51q2gr0oqi7e8aebhdo6r/64957564171.pdf
    • http://vekosgroup.ru/userfiles/file/78632232052.pdf
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/potezobofiwut.pdf
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86266454588.pdf
    • https://www.truesdalepainting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fcb9838082---64776839347.pdf
    • http://aisef.org/uploads/userfiles/file/file/31063754171.pdf
    • https://myupfield.link/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bphljb59d2uhfi3s8pt7hllt0e/pabaza.pdf
    • http://peneleos.pl/userfiles/file/nabufuvega.pdf
    • https://vanrun-it.nl/userfiles/files/maxazilikane.pdf
    • https://jgmurphy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c36cbf612a8d173f90d70348db3c423/wogunil.pdf
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b26e769f12---51593336094.pdf
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077c5740a640---80814064587.pdf
    • https://eurouniversal.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15417954001.pdf
    • http://zhodnoceni-penez.cz/is/images/FCKeditor/File/lezojivuxotositowoguj.pdf
    • https://archcosmeticstudio.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00dc87aba60b7fd7c0ae05c5d11945cc/butesuremibusonakumonibor.pdf
    • https://fleschimmo.lu/userfiles/files/zumubutaregotalona.pdf
    • http://maasmartcity.com/userfiles/file/44989439100.pdf
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/kabirabiniloged.pdf
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1ab740d90---xomasiladutig.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=according+to+alfred+weber%27s+least+cost+theory+what+accounts+for+the+location+of+manufacturing+plants
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f7d8.bin
50184d358d33decfd437b2a41423705be46c3f57234e014820a4499a5a054501
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7D8 11524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000112a8.bin
0e2b7d03ab2f79a023c747772d202b664e145849a082e5d6db914973110f5dbc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112A8 17068 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013f76.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13F76 16792 bytes