Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f967f521ab6806ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.8 KB Created: 2021-07-08 06:58:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 37059b5372d5a7826ad6c6092b25a228 SHA-1: db95ed8d9450c8ea9f856dafc0d22b7e61d2e6bb SHA-256: f967f521ab6806ba5841519d328aa98bad98fb673482d09b46b6b4762c1ec457
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of links, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/89635825382.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dotacjedlaoze.pl/userfiles/file/93341266760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manavpublicschool.org/manav/userfiles/file/sumelubur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/17279810439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jscorporation.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160993f5fd7fc5---69864304797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sankofalectureseries.com/clients/a/ae/ae3037074ff26ae8502dacd236f4ced8/File/72655382558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/142bef068490ea2449d4fd6e014c690c/wimalujotupizazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9b1d8080b---revajomapinorebazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vettercycles.ch/userfiles/files/kudiwatuxofijuluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.taxiserviceh24.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0685ad79b1---diwik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c31492f13350cad3e26d3f9d5ebd8871/robiwulokovipudal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8cb6b3a9d0---38434171714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607dbf109b67e---60540323552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b73bffadbee---58610123445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aab8aioy.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/foniwowerareda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lasanisports.com/files/befovuletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://communeouchamps.fr/userfiles/file/98541921171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rrvchefs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50e69b73187f6e772071b398b72242f1/nolobivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c037748ee482528837799879c005223/82127765914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paron-rebondir.com/uploads/files/60828077946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.unidacardoso.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b01ec86459---mubukov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=sdf+to+bwiPDF 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_off00017c91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000194a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x194A7 9936 bytes
SHA-256: 9b68bafe77db6ef5091e7bcb3b64ff762a68c74e4bd415f34eac36fffa8c58e2
font_02_sfnt_off0001aac9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AAC9 19864 bytes
SHA-256: 793059b6ef73f58f0650df6456b3add115e791a685ed8f4ab5d6d6b40348c40e