Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f119024e71ddefbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-25 00:21:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e9cc4a965147ba02201e5136b6b57b58 SHA-1: be8251373ef27bf78541992ce182699beca7cbf0 SHA-256: f119024e71ddefbde2b44eec0776c37a7d063679de67d3a4d7af731f044f911a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external sites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms. This suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious destinations for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9893

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://aquaprosmart.com/userfiles/files/modexuwikuleja.pdf
    • https://mirrorlink.com/public/files/files/jibekumumonifadunasiju.pdf
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161346a4103746---22794461715.pdf
    • http://aotem.com/data/home/qxu1780220113/htdocs/uploadfile/files/1428050466.pdf
    • https://promptcorporate.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ralenubutuniworenavi.pdf
    • https://semangkamerah.com/contents/files/14788501673.pdf
    • http://www.highlandmetals.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131cfb2238c4---duwusajerumajojorixe.pdf
    • http://cbstav.cz/file/vuzebipuk.pdf
    • https://carrieres-pierre.com/userfiles/file/vejavivu.pdf
    • https://casabresciani.it/uploads/file/17006837961.pdf
    • https://tradingphrases.net/userfiles/files/tugegupisalatugujilalujag.pdf
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140811c6f2fa---12415972821.pdf
    • https://royal-art.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/77373458802.pdf
    • http://studiotecnicopinto.it/userfiles/files/72444890296.pdf
    • http://grawerlik.pl/userfiles/file/94639262994.pdf
    • http://www.theflightfest.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613864a9e1e04---95877977315.pdf
    • http://mecaniquekd.ca/upload/file/53205602579.pdf
    • http://abdon.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23007763569.pdf
    • http://skinct.com/upload_file/file/Fl202109230719571837.pdf
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e20f8cf851---nepujodubogetegaxokiro.pdf
    • https://tutorsbureau.net/userfiles/file/benoze.pdf
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/1565057558.pdf
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57d8cca7c1cddbedf0bac8bb24c2840f/lopanurukejoxatoge.pdf
    • https://safe-international.com/userfiles/file/30910921122.pdf
    • https://agencement-menuiserie-var.fr/stockages/files/xupavatuwepujidani.pdf
    • https://edgecs.com/documents/53445461422.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=radian+of+120+degrees
    • 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_off0000b243.bin
bed02e4e8db79f88e865df0c60c39110bedb80dd3646bfe55d72924cac72c9d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB243 16376 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dc09.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC09 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f420.bin
62f36de88bb5a8f5f6ed09388fba5d7e985f66d2a29cf33c0d0a91575746456e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF420 10724 bytes