Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfbf41ed4e1e2608…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 08:16:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: c3ddc17f057baebc93932b9e9368922c SHA-1: f53e8373e3e8360cee296a0f047521bd4486756c SHA-256: dfbf41ed4e1e260833ee51615702ad98a76316aecb501f8ee8d731292113f381
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm containing numerous external URIs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of multiple URLs suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pyar+horoscope+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://snft.ro/media/file/dalujukivotorujaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chupwo.com/editor_upload/file/70830415300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clairvoyantinfotech.com/demo/images/kofatopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peiitw.com/Upload/ckeditor/files/numamowatatixojobujitelir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusiongrup.ro/userfiles/file/jozafetivevika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bio-scan.com/userfiles/file/xiniga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocchame.vn/app/webroot/img/uploads/files/piwebolesuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d9dbd89a3a---tukufixufemexosukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sona3elkhair.com/userfiles/file/68780232506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aven.su/userfiles/file/38367223594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://termofriz.rs/files/10998927871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://japanbizkorea.com/userData/ebizro_board/file/fimilujakimupebufuteteli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/jeserebuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hstairan.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/vatejejuvifawovegona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhorder.com/upload/files/detepebadetibiwixelexokis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bdata.vn/upload/files/19098329525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161301d1adccb8---99435179483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ezhealthcheck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sjj8oslu5he7013i8n2b9p3pn9/47522861234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tagsu.com/attachments/fckattachments/file/51574856265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd4964c429f475cb7ddd842183bdd5f9/fumudodisofikeduwid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thementalhealthadvocates.org/files/userfiles/file/95778754357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://confidenzacsapagy.hu/upload/77757880072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refakatci.net/userfiles/file/79926237971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tiande-global.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pigedavelixeboxuvafikiri.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_off0000c714.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC714 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF26 16148 bytes
SHA-256: ca10b16abea98c1475cba5d080b5a81436a34ea9464f4ead1e8b82583442ebc9
font_02_sfnt_off00010872.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10872 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 4e819dc0187dba2654f316216394d727ea89cede014a3b70e533c27af7082c35