Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0b784c7228971f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-13 22:50:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 561acac7b51507c996da11cca7c9ff32 SHA-1: 97d4741ee0e13bfa7fa3948d520faa5eeaf869db SHA-256: f0b784c7228971f0523cbfacec8e02faceb95696bd8e6496becd1af42e07e212
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs, many hosted on disposable or compromised domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

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 http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/12445407427.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://savytrading.com/userfiles/file/34656037548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lideregitimpaketleri.com/calisma2/files/uploads/51403371935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/26545926799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intranet.uts.edu.co/portal/app/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58490607605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenhere.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109021617475354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikosdimos.gr/userfiles/file/nowuxijagemume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161397b30d2067---32231252428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljjxmining.com/uploadfile/file///2021091022440525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vumefimam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///juwemikajif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddc9bd813df21fc4a0a6dc4159d60825/35992328939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phuquiland.com/upload/files/xikanino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://itexpertdog.com/upload/files/vugifisabofinixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5okhu5213bibub8sva6f2brfu6/kavegal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skulpt.in/admin/uploads/file/miropizarogula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahuacoop.com/cms_gpadmin2015/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/vovosawotomutirimawitusip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/87466379151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weilmclainboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/lutuvaradejakekozapalulal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://generaltubi.com/container/ckfiles/files/64569086808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicalproduct.hu/images/files/gajufisobutuzesedebetije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=period+tracker+free+app+downloadPDF 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_off0000b405.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB405 10624 bytes
SHA-256: 6227df2f7ff091bd81f54fc2d820daf333f66283f7ac3b1d53516aa350346792
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC83 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e495.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE495 16924 bytes
SHA-256: de4934993de10eb09dbf438182bb7a46fc1eb67fa6b81e0ff8d52d54bbc82746