Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f320ec949bfb737b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 11:20:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9945244f3f43b5571dac739707dea178 SHA-1: a4f726cc5510afe7ab87e725ab79579f708c6d1b SHA-256: f320ec949bfb737b3bc6f879af4ffd04017c5f7c9363d4baa4757a74f5d6bcb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various websites, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm detections strongly indicates a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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 https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ludwig+von+mises+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.simcoerecovery.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3h33f8o02dan9k2s04ju3f17k/gukumafigurasefolapevix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rauvuonsach.com/images/uploads/files/8526221858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bbpcosmetics.com/admin/upFiles/2021-5/file/87813218501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vawesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k5s0ugjbbmt0j89rua3d1tt4vs/76688427181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4iilkp2rej8rb66voad36bo587/79404769753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onellenorzes.com/uploads/files/8712701232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://handientu.vn/userfiles/file/wofifaxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urparitet.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugokusopaliragemupikozok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggmtc.net/userfiles/files/66026171041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stasta.com/userfiles/file/xebipelonojumatuxofonij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075def047303---54932209191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/5380639594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fiqa735be48e.com/upload/files/29505739220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upchealth.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87c0d53fd2e9ed285ea655f5e9aed178/fetixukelevivujanipabutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/forawuwakosobexufav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konberdbio.com/upload/files/pusemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://michaels-limo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ef35071d3c---55054275461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b7e38e7b85---96796637975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81359566350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miamiwars.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7f690c8c88f46343526359e807d9ddf/kijexevobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c154mu36m3eprfiuce1v6m7ld3/lujebajus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e17f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE17F 10852 bytes
SHA-256: 0f4ab78e2b070b0a24042483ec925809c8dd43e32d083ede1f13a50713e6281b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa5e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA5E 21484 bytes
SHA-256: 7a97b60b1cb163603f0af6e09dbeeb3a4535ae4055fd2a1049238df68d44b752
font_02_sfnt_off00012fc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FC3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1