Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f73618f36e89bda7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 13:47:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 675b52430bf099caba4e63ee5dffaff4 SHA-1: 890d1e21670d47519ca5016ce2ca4af32156f99e SHA-256: f73618f36e89bda77998f8cfd9837b5c652acb577e6cddc48eeba8a5302cdbea
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 malicious websites. Heuristics indicate the PDF is designed as a phishing lure, with ClamAV detecting it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves redirecting users via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 https://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=solve+the+riddle+with+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://flying-vikings.net/UserFiles/file/30271902924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makeyourpartnermelt.com/userfiles/file/vudisuxadepojesabepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.waterlooarmsnewforest.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/16f881322b550929beb7c286742a467b/wanavofubigabawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://localhomesales.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608817c627374---salexejederumililipeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dianacb.cz/userfiles/file/88349607760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://axi-hohenstein.de/userfiles/file/71893149663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://appvid.eus/userfiles/files/24575678314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteerdallas.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f56ab6bd99faa4ed29ae9034cee6a494/zokasirinoligaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://g-shocktou.com/user_file/file/mobigijez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luberoff.com/userfiles/file/bimaduxezitilovufifok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16238764133069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrocare.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52646209820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emrc.ie/upload/imagecontent/file/38198988353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/147428c533a2a31f86f48b83b3252e54/woxilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1d8a49090---nunubupufijovopajefubape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/fegikigawazutivimidegak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--12cmi2byac9cdhd0hra6d7bxkwbgj1gch.com/user_img/files/busuxemegepopukef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/068c41b8328133d841e160a76a574fb9/30805341986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a57bdf72dc86d95b8ace7bad31dcc00/zusaren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dkn0098m09d2i3sap665njor5/wowevujukalem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/mowilenawagedapexepuses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161136ca79be8d---41027362996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erisalaw-chicago.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/lexup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783603addf0---gekise.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_off0000e690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE690 17064 bytes
SHA-256: e8ce67ca576fd97fe955937556eec7f4ac93281fff4ee752df5afcbc6802cb7f
font_01_sfnt_off00011317.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11317 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 3311382c40d90622e8445fe2c734f810fdb4a91902f09496009c86449c2f7b45
font_02_sfnt_off00012b37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B37 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1