Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f724f05a948e9c90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 09:33:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 633809bdbcc004b73850e7616b8b5ae5 SHA-1: 4a482c07b8f470b6721a899d8bfc8bfc80d1edf1 SHA-256: f724f05a948e9c9044e9a3ce4bc82e74d09efb9e3975fa469e319f8a346b4f9f
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 or trojan variant. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://paradisetourkorea.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210901_01DDDD5626771309.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/vadawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmgec.com/Uploadfiles/files/45608148967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bocccui0vkc3dmv0ifpdtqdop2/60991142262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polandpools.com/contents/files/gotelukexurasexaritowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161344b953aa58---zenemebifuguxepora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ehlibeytalimleri.com/resimler/files/31845648729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cbb00232c9---juvarosodedozogeketasidos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24897191612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ejmk.com/ej/upload/files/553478665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abctranslink.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45881809085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nexapos.com/upload/files/zapopobum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/60923387211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://virus-safe-zone.com/ckupload/files/13723023612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gurgy.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29370781703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.la-rocca.pl/app/webroot/files/files/80525824848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/patimagawalozetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zagoxonunokatov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullgame.hu/uploads/files/73861546393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-instar.com/userfiles/file/lofiranobigovis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aroma-es.site/yamituki-n/uploads/files/69037866813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biosystech.com/pdsFck/file/71112782524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--or3bo5mvlb.com/data/editor/file/39309420348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=read+great+expectations+online+pdfPDF 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_off0000eb6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB6A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10381 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 33c88128d1e96897748ed0301aec1ef1ddb79eee78375f16892bc88fb70cb76f
font_02_sfnt_off00011cbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CBF 18676 bytes
SHA-256: 46cf31106a72d4ca2369471f431fbb99525a0091f7a6b8b146f2b61f536ebcef