Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdefe7987dd1af0d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-19 11:10:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 827c19ca82f63680a52cd7bf1effd182 SHA-1: 4724b5e46c8ab9c3841721c0b50623f64f16f260 SHA-256: fdefe7987dd1af0dbcafc82fc1df08d7fd0cd42ba8b6260e8ae1a2b99701ef34
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised or disposable domains. Heuristics indicate this is a link farm designed to obscure the true destination, and ClamAV detected it as a phishing trojan. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pi+bond+example PDF link annotation
    • http://winteringlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/46498499080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychebiengoduykhuong.com/media/ftp/file/junopoporejot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/3639789765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/90247348994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/miwavewukadipobazevaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giaiphapthietke.vn/media/file/files/netalupitulubalewudevoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aspbae.org/userfiles/file/roxanorokatubulekexomokop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szentistvanpatika.hu/upload/file/xakenato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razredna-nastava.net/files/riwivoxasurotod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkycc4.com/kycc4.com/userfiles/files/99673948483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kgl05uqjme5fcaseu312lgct76/84803299212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turningpointdigital.com/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40731815576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seoulmenu.com/uploads/files/66087830160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eurotig.ro/file/sivam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmahavidyalaya.org/lion/uploadedfiles/fck/files/file/37116919269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edeins.com/userfiles/file/wutugebofojodowaxufeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132264e957fe---49701702614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/muwepebis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/58137092374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cmtl.in/uploads/userfiles/file/file/xaxoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermocomfort.ca/userfiles/file/xorikur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140fb6561be4---32547099233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maynenkhiinverter.com/media/ftp/file/jujomipifazegane.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_off0000db67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB67 17336 bytes
SHA-256: 324674f54024d1b1de947b44e62689d3a08deebeff021eee985ab5448d549893
font_01_sfnt_off0001084f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1084F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012066.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12066 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 8421f79249698864e5ed90da56905b8f39c404c7a710016511c0943875e3e508