Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f493c726ea3fe1d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 13:54:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 78a35049c66e088f2a0f023eed21ae81 SHA-1: b44896129c9acedf6ddf5832a7753fcba499858c SHA-256: f493c726ea3fe1d5247bc8495bee8e413f353814b46e3a00d34685672623eae1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external websites, some of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The embedded URLs suggest an attempt to direct users to potentially harmful content or further stages of an attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://rkenterprisesonline.com/FCKeditor/file/1092786207.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szyqjsj.com/UploadFile/file/20210918133046092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/lapurerizazadizuvalifufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aviatechinform.ru/sadm_files/wofogizalivevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parfumzone.ro/files/file/31728831357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jca-t.com/fck_image/file/86372489334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-eria.pl/mandarynka/pliki/files/62437690853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uo3rh1vetstojtdcj3t66ehfkg/lenorupewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kanat.com/upload/ckfinder/files/juguxewopelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techmechengineers.com/uploads/tafupenumesagivetas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/vudulilonaxofogulagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayjack.com/upload/files/42689482388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verzorgingsindex.nl/images/uploads/19040718142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.diktu.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133d6bf91580---47103643450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bkht.vn/userfiles/file/sedogenulal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f072c58aad---sajisikujabowatudox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incomsistema.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wugobunopikemob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tabouligrill.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuwosomerazevadijeled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineerindia.com/admin/userfiles/file/88113647261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resumesfromabove.com/userfiles/file/xajixawaxuxevowaxupozus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blgjad.com/upload/files/35189431311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pscworld.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zolofizimiranaxunofuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acutecardio.ru/sadm_files/xoxolevokove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://titishop.co/upload/files/vimopasefakevazejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreanhotpot.com/uploads/files/nutifutarefasolewitawago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=cyberpunk+2020+character+sheet+fillablePDF 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_off0000beda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEDA 17356 bytes
SHA-256: 97d8a7158261f9441537fff988e359645244626f7675a091b3d216500779c66a
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB9A 11176 bytes
SHA-256: f7aecc0165c6c26d86ff29062c38d7ac1c65795caac83e09ffb784d70a328672
font_02_sfnt_off0001059a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1059A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1