Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f400ec9abad65945…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.7 KB Created: 2021-07-29 09:59:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: de1f049d3a18f64dbdc9ff91def20280 SHA-1: b868a25ca44225c2b98f3e8cd3274d1722c14e70 SHA-256: f400ec9abad65945fd71b8cb366e0b412de0ee054092d0c6b9d1f97d3376e59e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farms point towards a spearphishing attachment attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=physically+based+rendering+third+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/2978690946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://upchealth.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e2f0c516fcb6aea536fdfb36e83dfae8/13004931336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trungtinjsc.vn/upload/FCK/file/51038647423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grand-forge.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/664a76e036a1319bf2dd051c5bc6c52b/zaradavubimazowaloze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alpha-dynamics.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607084eac8b66---kujetoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edsmithestate.com/clients/8/8f/8fcea3baa00381bb68ca4dcda22eb4c7/File/zekevuzelekuwigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078ef5021192---wawufunukixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/le4p0a10oa20h2816459k1d8d0/51308592471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/82549454580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9npim7ebfobb0gbemqj1fimbpm/xodenorasov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hglobaltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210627_AB1D2F7A4546D600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lexen.ca/userfiles/files/60162659917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fgo49bu11j4ij2dsh7l1mupank/14739199886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609707d525ed8---xodewotinuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a17962f0bab---88848761229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ec08c0c050---rukasemaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3d7d52d0a8---46516972706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://analogsys.com/uploaded/file/1341600076608fb5bad6daa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartcookieacademy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f69f448da80---mevapuzidoxulaxezalos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rajeshjshahani.com/clients/d/de/defaee86e9f1fedea086b53a5072ac2c/File/kabobatar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stakeoutllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/93d664b93f4aeb3b361c01e80969423b/50843311577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prosegik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04219e565bae7530be079e8a45e08487/zatorifotiwopukodom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f5e223e9be---gokuwow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb44c25bb7---ziwejotetalozefefup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b20aac099cdd2d516828e9b9fdb8351/rezabomekarozowapuledudaw.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_off0001039c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1039C 11156 bytes
SHA-256: d21f3be202e307b796c08a63c3a5b53fcce57cedbdd05fd6a4515288d66d71e4
font_01_sfnt_off00011d3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D3B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001354d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1354D 19140 bytes
SHA-256: 2d14b7e0e344b8fc8c9c476bb19abaefe1fd36616b51fc43d44f3149a6dcce6d