Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0669f5477b318b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-09-25 06:49:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: de46f88406551f30da24bc3e86e8c12e SHA-1: 5808b6a6ffffb7b87d102c4d715c0b9394ecbebc SHA-256: f0669f5477b318b546791c4c36d4a05afc8ee13983dff2f96aafcc308f3b6e50
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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, with several URLs pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://fiscalonline.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/71209121116.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://onsijsselstein.nl/userfiles/files/ginapisivimenanadejameten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edituj.cz/res/file/bufepegikujer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progfin.pl/userfiles/file/gugovovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwcasino.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93262056710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icq998erav8sfep5qmioejnh53/73266509023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gcsiva.com/files/userfiles/file/wazuviliwujibim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b2b-intelligence.it/uploads/file/jitajusoxadaxivaxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6c6632bbc76d3f94560d32a88c842b2/wovavaloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4grd.com/cmsimages/file/boxebikafezabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/050928381265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137693aeee14---14582301024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/09/14/file/20210914_070708_195.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/77507058363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stradatextiles.com/upload/ckfinder/files/mezafebusupojazojawiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rothemtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_32779C27DD87D886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serdceprirody.ru/userfiles/file/mupixapetap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donahoelawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/fuwitamilavefifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://menokatea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96642116922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happinessgown.com/upload/users/files/77445697775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f5e5086a50---dagagukisezefenudisoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+connect+my+phone+to+my+ps3PDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB062 10600 bytes
SHA-256: cf46b63aa18073054f5d91c620dfbec591959c6d2257340f797b4930383bcda1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c880.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC880 17224 bytes
SHA-256: f7708cfed71ea6ea573b1508fd6593654c2697109509273f3e727e7fe2f4d5ac
font_02_sfnt_off0000f478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF478 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1