Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f131f4cfd06b9594…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 18:18:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 35b8ecac07823620baf3028011225c84 SHA-1: abae02d4e9b2c6965d4636a4567379a948e15026 SHA-256: f131f4cfd06b95947b5e0bc6aa3c6d6956b79b5410c102aeb3a9fbdc7a9fb7f7
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and flagged by an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple disposable hosting domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URIs and a link farm on potentially compromised CMS upload storage further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9929

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/90217801246.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://torbay.ru/images/uploads/file/98956647220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/numiwabox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solarconsulting.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0300ba7845e0fb7f5919d43aee661bb2/41518791571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smcertificationservices.com/userfiles/files/viluzudevibukixoduwim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/jevibamixuxepifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161324b672bd1e---wasajelonajomadawosifanas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bsbcarpet.com/userfiles/file/vusuduzutewojovetosed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/nafimibuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///84961373266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbypet.cz/files/file/90629601994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nieruchomosciprzetargi.pl/files/file/99838052067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://franchisebusinessadvisors.franchisebrokerwebsites.com/broker-site/files/files/25867046097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appchecar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28136275192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143dd0266d8a---toxozegokadat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoinhikhoavn.com/img/files/bojuxapezurorakuxedorod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mindentudor.hu/userfiles/file/22972650296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totspotdaynursery.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68484749889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kursverwaltung.fit-n-essen.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pevaxulavafulusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://car-zone.sk/data/data/file/64172808233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solarwindependence.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43622351289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/63231312138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161439104948b6---mapimesemura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wfca-czech.cz/temp/userfiles/files/20987033861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eric-parnes.shortex.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lapatenomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=kung+lao+2021PDF 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_off00010fd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FD1 18968 bytes
SHA-256: 3bc403de9f93a930b56ccdf8507dd330f276e3fb775da6331ee40394bba25d5f
font_01_sfnt_off0001419c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1419C 10080 bytes
SHA-256: 30531ccb7a6a0293a9b2dda7917fe7ddff4ecd2734053c42bd787ee8341d28e0
font_02_sfnt_off00015837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15837 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1