Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f393e09d29e6dbf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 02:07:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 80258a876fe97441974a9caf73715228 SHA-1: f6b20f3c0257a10ceaf9887c95b3a7c7bbdd0f24 SHA-256: f393e09d29e6dbf699abd4d81efb0039d7e1b0c6c9f99eb401f6edd7c934d49c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to potentially compromised websites. Heuristics indicate these links are used for SEO manipulation and point to disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+pdf+for+pc PDF link annotation
    • https://asztromiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tadofemov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://copperscrap.wasteequipment.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/netewelivabek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesecurityguardunion.ca/userfiles/files/sikaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/xorolofunonaxal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://commissioncollectionlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/79338965495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88609630259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/574561988.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://solis.altrodesign.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53749600776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arabadvertise.com/userfiles/files/jurupizaniterowujakabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lasipoxirupisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144c9bcd7625---59902290207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://izmirtavla.com/upload/file/97219552358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inlovehuahin.com/file_media/file_image/file/69909984784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d44c76fa0e6dd198c61f97b31651a2cd/sexokasabon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podgoricki-klub.me/userfiles/file/72244230240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30754925302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kildevangen.dk/files/34088499227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devitohomesorlando.com/userfiles/files/97546367328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zematepijunadedikogejut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acrclubinversores.com/files/galeria/files/50443533912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://redengewinnt.com/userfiles/file/33345362072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcserviszlin.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2948703855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowenlawmt.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xovuzafutazuvavunepuzaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d6943554de---kezebufubiguzor.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_off0000be0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE0D 17112 bytes
SHA-256: 7bbf69e97871178261b467d55cc12e2bba9c2aa9827895e2fa4481c6f8478815
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA80 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 3e7038f6c48c667803d84a9a05fe163b06a59f6bc2f3e74e0a496eb203d17822
font_02_sfnt_off000101bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101BC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1