Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfa5e6f022bff96d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:57:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a36631836d64a8fc55a4b1d444c8ec8f SHA-1: 1063bc48c225ef6f26ac07ad012e30d2ca1d3e86 SHA-256: dfa5e6f022bff96ddf49eae1455e2fe5bc4028105310666a9578c9f395292a2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting an attempt to hide its malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links indicates a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+replika+pro+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://segurosjdd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hdij3i0ll714sgo4sf1o5ujbo3/regabogomibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vrzion.com/data/userfiles/files/reritape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adanakursmerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a875485c88---dopimixekusalogogoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.americanapi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161380be6cf3ed---88204874740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siamsankyo.com/Uploads/file/dejejulidibesomuzuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.hu/files/9605504856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tienhasteel.com/app/webroot/upload/files/mezomitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birzebbugastpetersfc.com/files/file/7155187171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_FA3976E455E1C722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuonlan.vn/data/upload/files/91473774674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsijiqing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2021/0902/a7e95b9ad3acf6240928e918bfe7e317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://h-st.nl/bestanden/files/64264153319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natur-pet.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xexobuxik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockbond-aac.com/id-admin/fckImages/file/7691636876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sk-developers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142357599d95---30284808936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bosgo.mn/uploads/files/61261462295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoop.legreniervert.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40096952673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trompis-tondschungel.de/userfiles/file/felozif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enerjimakine.com/tsrm1/img/userfiles/file/kidiwoxuwepapitow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyliving.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88165979066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americasbestwingspa.iorderfoods.com/uploads/files/36652676897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cascinasorigherio.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ef02e3cb9b---79132501987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bevasilicones.in/userfiles/file/relagozera.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b2ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2CA 16368 bytes
SHA-256: ae841dca654f2cb5aa2edde23ac5a7b5001d6899e5e662de614ec7ff50f9e0c2
font_01_sfnt_off0000dce1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4F7 9944 bytes
SHA-256: 55847f8b47ce4f254cafad51225ccc3fd756129a4eb8e6480c68cc6e4a524f8a