Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f883ee595c9e2094…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-05 09:21:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: db0db83b96bfc72d4cf5cf09f3a721b7 SHA-1: f248046d0e4432d905ae63adc27247322646b23d SHA-256: f883ee595c9e209491266422384029f2b63f3d4dfd35b47a923cb002600943da
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and an ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially malicious or SEO-abused websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lfbc1a7glbj3tnoijjtilf8nm6/nabilizovurarujopez.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a5913db5829d9b9a2eddc0ecf26c69f1/39453780335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/xejebunilimeduvisopot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzdsbg.com/uploadfile/1624814054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210702154313_j9o8wb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://macleanpinesdrivingschool.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/926b6b90e2e8d01ea2284c8ca0f5a917/84564715735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0e58296152---lirawejimidogupomotomas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elicopter-de-inchiriat.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acba4e022d0---47141979969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banghetretunhien.com/media/ftp/file/mibabagafunosizin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddriu.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b4032b62b076c2abb4a47fb4652099c/jugelipegomajid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starlightcelebre.org/clients/4/43/43e9139217482d7666ce300faf566241/File/10454669737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozgu-yapi.com/firma/files/42446088248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piataafacerilor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/pijivakalupudamakumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://precedent.by/_newsite/images_from_html_editor/file/jiwowajamodegalitige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denki-shonan.com/uploadsfile/3823352202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iohrp.org/f_files/files/lisanofobugojurez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://directprocessors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ad49b4a2a---nutadenenusidoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpollopaulino.com/cenavarra_userfiles/files/bisuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca56f82e4b1---kavajutetaforogoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sahrugs.com/userfiles/file/68232672603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93212072755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b84d9a2b862---97082760441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beautydent.hu/editor_up/87656828826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/85090777346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=matriarchal+theory+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_off0000e4f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4F3 18068 bytes
SHA-256: b236ead936cd3f791f87c4427dc14dc0a791d0413716ed34bdf984cb84f4160b
font_01_sfnt_off0001143a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1143A 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 649083fc27242a556c6e55ef3d04af996532ceec85a8fe86cc9bf5ee9ed1bbd3
font_02_sfnt_off00012c73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1