Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dff5302f46028145…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-18 17:50:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 16e0ecc3b10afcff206babd5a20af7e6 SHA-1: d06bc752d631091553e27ba15cb24857d7718e44 SHA-256: dff5302f460281455549c2baa56fe02ce0b0c86bc81ab17c79506e87224e8718
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised or disposable domains. These links are likely intended to lead users to phishing sites or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=items+that+begin+with+c
    • http://uptownchantilly.com/uploads/files/42797412611.pdf
    • https://asiquim.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/katolet.pdf
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161413e96aee83---mirizivar.pdf
    • http://umffz21.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7235436412.pdf
    • http://wahluenfty.com/userfiles/856109445.pdf
    • https://estidevelopers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf7ac544121d9aa66ddc484f78c65802/bikiraxe.pdf
    • http://lctrading-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99539623197.pdf
    • http://vertex-decor.com/userfiles/file/3457015007.pdf
    • http://champagne-marc-chauvet.com/images/files/vugofivoviwarufuvin.pdf
    • https://makanbanyak.net/contents/files/zoruzulatedadaxubixik.pdf
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/fefajinenixovetexed.pdf
    • http://studioprogettoarchitettura.eu/userfiles/files/77570866236.pdf
    • http://sqc.jp/user_data/editor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/upload/files/lidixopufopoxezadoxege.pdf
    • https://needletherapy.eu/upload/file/81962992604.pdf
    • https://chongtham68.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/69425031820.pdf
    • http://studioriboldi.eu/userfiles/files/mapigeragamerefanedosu.pdf
    • https://kohphanganhotelandtour.com/userfiles/file/mawixetuzosixaloro.pdf
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/20198794899.pdf
    • https://accuratesearch.com/userfiles/file/17058637451.pdf
    • https://www.fmworks.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5mbun5jmm5373mpjv6654vc2eh/67330916950.pdf
    • http://fli.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lukabemoxuzeli.pdf
    • http://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/ligimukuwumatuxemazegag.pdf
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/kapadumonebepojo.pdf
    • http://ekachaiguitarist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7994407353.pdf
    • 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_off0000d71a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD71A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef31.bin
8fc52193bd55fa34ce883881f1c65f5b54dab4f84a5f7ff38812db6b1c64a7c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF31 10588 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010746.bin
f5aeb8c963e6a57d33ca8cc9ec89d62fcf84985171369171c7d661e5139a9264
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10746 17644 bytes