Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0623ae0d97e5510…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.4 KB Created: 2021-08-14 05:35:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9df8a462bad344f093c53fb75130aa43 SHA-1: 717b003ed06be79afbccaa60d6ae01aed824cfc0 SHA-256: f0623ae0d97e5510fa7485c233141a90022bd9dab5b46eec2f66f07f532874b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a ML classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its intent beyond the presence of URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://tungqibiotech.com/upfiles/editor/files/besenudotosabonuvokow.pdf
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db95968fff---xolararizeromexape.pdf
    • http://ipvoicenj.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e495160775---70923246822.pdf
    • http://thayloilocnuoctaihanoi.net/upload/files/nadik.pdf
    • https://slezanie.eu/userfiles/file/zipiwugekibibobapijakunol.pdf
    • https://raljob.com/userfiles/file/25682130522.pdf
    • https://monacollection.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10d0928c8b2ab4cad048097a259b92f7/junizanarevofaxalere.pdf
    • https://behagi.eus/files/galeria/files/17959626882.pdf
    • http://jyotiacademicpress.org/uploads/file/nedelifajadiwajoxej.pdf
    • http://aftckwt.com/uploads/file/zuxaxeralusofuvigu.pdf
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qmggs821uvtrb1c997mptpfogj/27779879689.pdf
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091f9a4a43f3---robimibok.pdf
    • https://voolabs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c8fef20c3d---safaludelizan.pdf
    • https://backcountryplayground.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/316904ee9bd53f18c8c56dffa801d1da/69784277494.pdf
    • https://adtw1.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/buwukiv.pdf
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1b8fa87b94---4332069288.pdf
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d544e9678a---73502870653.pdf
    • https://rainbowfurnitures.com/files/files/94210749566.pdf
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92c90b7d070fedadc2eee2c05cd75a0a/tinibireliw.pdf
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ume4v84j0tasb1l3hqplmoad6/fuvawofutosisuvozirixi.pdf
    • https://chptravel.ir/data/file/votosegalawamatiri.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=chemical+equilibrium+problems+and+answers
    • 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_off000105fe.bin
b7b7e92a61de4833bde934da737a647297fc7ea79b51695932ab737470e92b75
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105FE 11184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011f89.bin
362fc93edfa7b5fb5fc6691b55fb9278285104eb72306ea04593da6366fd50e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F89 17824 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014edc.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14EDC 16792 bytes