Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 effc989d660cb892…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-11 13:10:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 301ab22a4ce72d7042e980a673e6c727 SHA-1: fbb07a8da0a8f7ab04d1d055916f8c64fd88f26f SHA-256: effc989d660cb8928347722cf5a934b8d66d4d1076ec8e02c9180cc64bc3c27d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many hosted on compromised or disposable domains, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic point towards an attempt to leverage external resources for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/38224981845.pdf
    • https://appvid.eus/userfiles/files/3522291362.pdf
    • http://meta-min.com/files/petiberumufopaxozaxekope.pdf
    • http://clean-ecology.com/Upload/files/kikijijanif.pdf
    • https://pelicanfinancialnetwork.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41892752183.pdf
    • http://obkladlazby.cz/userfiles/file/22860255706.pdf
    • http://jessie.vn/images/ckeditor/files/2780743270.pdf
    • https://www.ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48075350557.pdf
    • http://poliinc.com/upload/files/rofivevonogatowazapinuba.pdf
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132b8cd2bcb4---91795699178.pdf
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/fabozakasesofomuba.pdf
    • http://tetraeng.it/userfiles/files/bomuwivesezo.pdf
    • http://letresorellebio.it/userfiles/files/sasosaxalozikule.pdf
    • http://thamcohoaian.com/webroot/img/files/bulinakepikakasotiware.pdf
    • https://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zopik.pdf
    • http://strahovka66.ru/userfiles/file/45136120214.pdf
    • http://giadinhlaurenso.org/upload/files/75681580079.pdf
    • http://balletpanov.com/uploads/files/nekojozilunupij.pdf
    • http://tatugigo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9794961908.pdf
    • http://ahdjcm.com/upload/files/42964157262.pdf
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e21c2db673d4bc1dfd88d417e564eca/5946769700.pdf
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3010433501.pdf
    • http://kotolantopeni.cz/file/filodi.pdf
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/164358e1279d69ae7a6cd7c4a0ff54ff/62785343923.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=top+eleven+2019+mod+apk+offline
    • 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_off0000df2b.bin
da09e560aa58d9be5c021ebf83b58a02e98f5cf5a6ffbcfa8a1871a1aa3944b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF2B 17792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010df7.bin
46bd94e226f17bba8405963cdbc26b727013fcbbdb20798e609eb585a47746b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10DF7 10876 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00012729.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12729 16792 bytes