Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f151edacf13aeb22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.2 KB Created: 2021-08-09 04:36:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: dcde2522f9d788b043b9667ff264edcc SHA-1: c2f5c5ae8091bc28470a3676b535cfca008c0a65 SHA-256: f151edacf13aeb22066646163e9fe815c0173389623084099d164ec136a9647d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable hosting. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' heuristics indicate a pattern of using such sites to host or link to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://hc6999.com/userfiles/files/dixazojiledaweromi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210517030439231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exantusfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/96/968554593547eb574606130639276270/File/26077410016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eduinfinite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/340b2f1a5d1c94a9d72e8f5f50521379/zulipeburudujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lokmangal.co.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb3b4097d5320a7f6d41ce615d2b7247/pujepebipor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allcreaturesinc.com/files/files/jiwobes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a91155caf27---semosudijejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/944fa10d600f35f2fccbc152c03755da/53343114966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sqs5e5c1u0rna7pprll03i9ksl/xikiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://auf.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rt9fo8rnjg89ceaisgvo7lkb1/tegexezamunegovovolisojid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e69f11058a---numonamivoxoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eluvial.com/sites/all/sites/eluvial.com/files/71080654973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.contectrade.hu/fckfiles/file/wiforososiwel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96315969891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b49194dc957---wemedoxakozexobewunikarux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://espaciocultivarte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kukisapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjallstar.com/upload/file/vazigavudife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610701d43e349---tomikodufidudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e602d1421d---newimamesokabamiwupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickvideo.nl/userfiles/file/tifuditigetamakixeponixes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalaichau.com/files/16605004190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=accounting+for+managers+bba+pdfPDF 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_off0000f63c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF63C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E53 11136 bytes
SHA-256: 295ec5dc3c30cc4ec5e76ec85b73b0d299a018b7278d47b004fb6a6fd045813b
font_02_sfnt_off000127fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127FA 17612 bytes
SHA-256: 0ea1fed4dbf1686ae302b80123ff50d59cf055455bb35327309610aa053c8738