Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff839e7c9fe3700b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.4 KB Created: 2021-09-09 07:08:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 40d754242bf678d50eb1b0466ad2b9d8 SHA-1: 3735842c72381aaecb3281bea5340f9ab1203923 SHA-256: ff839e7c9fe3700b7d3fee22d029a01d8d7a42118469c489fc4bb8bb0e1fe60f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, forming a link farm. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://kaptenhoki.com/contents/files/5173456866.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.naraihillgolf.com/admin/userfiles/file/novobigemetiriratif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baiduvpn.com/upload/files/tujonibulimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134d60bab9de---vipikizarasufalanaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teraval.cz/res/file/52505855543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkm-lux.by/var/upload/file/90698029708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcvizovice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/85798642369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giritrademark.com/content_files/files/vazuziderununezejizixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kayapalinakliyat.com/file/romozejugaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakspravnenapsa.cz/userfiles/file/30181605748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5286b78367052b973be1d971f25bac76/19669707013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protectakoteasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71809453362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6f57964580d9a44bf7f85f4b8696a7d1/44498554602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalthailand.com/images/uploads/ckfinder/files/suzefivileluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fleschimmo.lu/userfiles/files/vexegabafefeletil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bige.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/5248500777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137b07a0a5fb---89263427166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assushop.com/userfiles/assushop.com/file/tixuzesubiruxamunogawana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardatrans.com/content/Files/97874850781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/livexalulonaponegapiluja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokorny-podlahy.cz/UserFiles/File/23896330831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vin-baietii.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9256588200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=promo+codes+for+robux+2021PDF 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_off0000be4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE4C 17176 bytes
SHA-256: 3c2ecbfe3b4f0a81aaf259e7bea1a9ab7bfa26d5db3d51b69fa4c7c538cf36f2
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB51 10772 bytes
SHA-256: 5db095906b6bb0df2a863edd4c127c244a2fe90643cf7100ce9ee26201557563
font_02_sfnt_off00010441.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10441 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1