Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f916243f8bb61400…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-06-14 19:13:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 9a327b51c3143fc4a289e1654c09e932 SHA-1: 7bc8baf49faca484a7bc737911e9198249363441 SHA-256: f916243f8bb61400df9db40aae6802ec0a9ef2d037d30e65cab794830496634d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ambari+kannada+naa+songs PDF link annotation
    • https://artlabjo.com/userfiles/file/86322254470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/febitadobafir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609caf805d38f---80100112842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icl3hsmqvi7a973voovjohnev5/panod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ihr3gmbcblo7tmri2kad64hv5l/504270258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/32563583758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/11401411025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072efc510262---vadodabar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099f05ad3800---83012269078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fvqhifjn4necr17uigq218i2k1/49052542878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/saxikabolodumidudep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abofahed.com/userfiles/file/medinawop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.northeastmarquees.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f809f23f0108b13d82c7f52c77ce5e73/gubuzuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a08ff68d152---2332217826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://placc.info/up_image/xisajafitukow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://extremetour74.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f5a082dc502c78a377cad99c0d0e3dd/90052967558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/palosofugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079fc60336a5---49755441008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d473.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD473 4896 bytes
SHA-256: eb475e60c9d37ede03fe3078c8d2ff817ea699a58d384e2037efa9f7bcb2a4b9
font_01_sfnt_off0000e4e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4E1 2272 bytes
SHA-256: f84087c5d0ae7164530167c53e4610abe4d8c30b1838cb32d5fcf0c9dcdd3042
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF99 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 46ee9916c8a0163c9dea65fa5010702e77987acb971ac2284c361db0fed8841e
font_03_sfnt_off0001153c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1153C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361