Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fde73d915651a189…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:30:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c9346a95628039e251ebe839a601b6c6 SHA-1: 0fec2f6c5695dc3e03f11477f8e73577b00433df SHA-256: fde73d915651a1890d8e0bb3cc1306a2fbfe43c7845bfe3e9de8795fa7840f38
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links pointing to various domains, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS upload storage or appear to be disposable. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings indicate a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://htijsr.com/userfiles/file/pujowetemowe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://leesman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7e56e69e2c0e37262b336970dd456b4d/pukawolozusukumedonanawad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hdurmuslar.com/images_upload/files/19909876515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mashtalkandil.com/userfiles/file/famufuwavomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://royalgoodviewresort.com/Uploads/file/saxepop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.goldenplanet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f404231f0c---14605230301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divorcefinance.nl/uploads/file/sufinareregozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607812a36ff9e---jesisavozed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://am-system.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27382161785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/68647816402.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a05a36d5ea986081f3a5ae50b314073/95747009842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/426gri19p00u5o1hgopgo545cp/rimematonufuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.anieliasfx.com/uploads/textareas/file/pofonimuzexiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/10838372405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espacioschillout.es/images/admin/file/seronokezerubazutewas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valubil.com/public/uploads/cms_file/cms_files/65385511279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.vn/uploads/files/45459833292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qm5fk2gttsj8seo985taiunb20/74180301875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpc1970reunion.com/clients/3/3e/3eb4c5728feca7eb79feed4eed44c519/File/tinenegozenizetozekazak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/82466260230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/3167344268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henca.com/files/details/file/24069985062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://animationcoach.com/userfiles/file/nejudelamivivibexotabaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ciabrini-immobilier.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4qodo3q79t6hdpmjfd0rthg46k/ludogiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16113652232f95---niritumow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=save+pdf+from+web+pagePDF 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_off0000db7c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB7C 16492 bytes
SHA-256: ef9b6f708eba48f119b9724a8e5427fa0712a0cad4b54f0c30e8a8265296276c
font_01_sfnt_off000105d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011dec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DEC 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 588b7052f5e7bab7b717260c2a755dd110dbd112816027ef791d2ac3ad17e85e