Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f257867979de0772…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 22:35:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 3e24fa9affba24f09258ffb8e4edc0e2 SHA-1: 0e0635f2193afc9d449f3359d7b00d6758947c13 SHA-256: f257867979de07724a5ab3db2e9c41b28f836b61dd2468b8f2186574fc4f6cc6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, with ClamAV detecting it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lead users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://www.goataxiservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161319fd155630---42834121473.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hurtglass.pl/upload/file/5242080605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twinmd.ru/userfiles/file/nuxoxogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komodovo.ru/upload_picture/sisavebogazijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penal-garazh.ru/files/36090519387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hong-tour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210908_1EA24A44F6479F56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alhambra.kopanramen.com/uploads/files/woposusemixidaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161376f19946e0---15053953369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abapaposentados.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130e4133d062---73339479073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pracowniatechart.pl/fckpliki/file/66238109807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetruck.gr/images/file/wadidif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tverzhilservis.ru/foktver.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46417629773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcbarrett.com/user_area/file/dotinepofanosekaguxopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/2021951835279657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyccpharma.com/upload/files/67874648326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adian.eus/files/galeria/files/tomutulagazugivigex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adas-muko.pl/photo/file/3734260653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lunaleo.pl/userfiles/file/8921704234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378c383a484---jovorerozerikopigosoliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elliptical-trainers.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gixuxavoxubulezop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambiance-cinema.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2c07c315da845b99f9bcdf9af316bd4/29088209469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjglaw.com/uploadfile/file/2021090718182173499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenlakepaint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vefupobinolol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laros.cz/UserFiles/file/bevudatobapufis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=sad+shayari+smsPDF 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_off0000bfb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFB4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7C6 18928 bytes
SHA-256: 161ed5657b63fc0fc766f885e53c13ef28fa252a0603e5bedeaca1b593dbd5f8
font_02_sfnt_off00010991.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10991 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 62d730d23d6a0c3433d0ee68b99f356bb0c6dcde665450d42e7630aa50915d9b