Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f809dfbf9a01bce2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:15:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 163b3ddfad0b8f82ed504dfa75ee086c SHA-1: 3810cd2d8b169cdb498770ec04a831d530f035db SHA-256: f809dfbf9a01bce2f7360da46ee5ddcfea7f0ae73799d8d2fc5987daf8aa1625
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting. The heuristic firings indicate this is a link farm designed to direct users to external content, consistent with phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=is+helium+a+nonmetal+metal+or+metalloid PDF link annotation
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/vumovedafozukikebat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/76142511004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/xavudaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/jafugujevadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610423314dd1e---82561278846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://say-international.eu/userfiles/file/38339833050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callmarkinvestments.com/callmark/files/tekatipidawores.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yssnewlessons.org/UserFilesTwo/file/panibubawuzurisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da3fb9507ad3c741610b81491f05f343/notobosakezaxote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/sapokuvodivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609134ba1748b---18823683340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sealjet.mn/pictures/files/78830195387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/22234807500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sy-smile.com/upload/files/nosudifetikumufagelikofil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prvugkh.ru/uploads/files/71774942758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dush-kz.ru/uploads/fck/file/30868222109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://earplighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/de4af07a70dbadcff07df7dcfad3db41/26732276159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hgbs.de/userfiles/file/38661832906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basaritarim.net/admin/editor_resim/file/nenavenekexuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reenactmentmarket.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/fenugimulegajijunanud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sancarspune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff57c54f08fc464b47896490601d54da/63604303492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alignerco.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f3ccb35dce8a57c106e8eaaf550994e/68522639656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nghiencuuykhoa.com/uploads/userfiles/file/13689279004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pferde-fuer-unsere-kinder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9e3bc693eb---jamisokapasidiwudumizit.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_off0000da8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA8E 18284 bytes
SHA-256: e309990088bc6214f0cbac1faf470b76fea8d3d158ba8a6191d3c0f270fdc6ec
font_01_sfnt_off000109b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109B9 10564 bytes
SHA-256: d34811d12d5117203912716229c6607b95facb629590baff72ceb29a9caeb098
font_02_sfnt_off0001219d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1219D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1