Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 021b04334adea079…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-14 13:16:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d9594a7c00ef67b300bb52e7ea09016f SHA-1: a350b87c86594f9f727131b0b7b6836411abc71c SHA-256: 021b04334adea0792e211794dd32c7f56a81ab8d3dc62ce5fd17b6520d7cd5e4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains. The presence of numerous URLs, including one with a 'utm_term' parameter suggesting tracking, points towards an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jurassic+world+alive+fake+gps+android PDF link annotation
    • http://adhdesign.de/userContent/files/20210906132201-sarajigagumub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcrm.cloud/upload/files/7129739208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.eu/userfiles/file/60407398246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellenia3.eu/userfiles/files/29260893061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iiiemjobs.com/FCK_Editor_Images/files/didepikisuxoduferivoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gemicilojistik.com/userfiles/upload/file/movemorizojova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teacherandtraining.com/coj_u/KK/userfiles/files/89955964122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/42662394843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leaders-adv.net/userfiles/file/83253417599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tv-sat.cz/userfiles/file/6378360216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quetthe.com/upload/files/ripogubusutelatezurovilap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icnj.net/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ralemakabopefepava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://woft-dining.com/webroot/editor-uploads/files/xumatawegapemed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maybomnuocdanang.com/uploads/image/files/kenoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodluckfishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88737525025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maisonforville.be/documents/file/26090444210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133555a286a5---dizobutiruloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.polni.si/Images/files/77832446915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/pidajewemoratekugaxidosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latgalesamatnieki.lv/files/file/19003113397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613646023a6d5---niwigubipovixuropinebab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnfhdc.com/UpLoadFile/2021090706095380740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--49st2et51duvk.com/upload/files/bilop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snap-drone.com/userfiles/file/rixebazizivubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaragozalawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/76160854687.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_off0000f07f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF07F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010896.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10896 11032 bytes
SHA-256: 225c12496c8e822c30dbf090d6706fb38bc097266cdc8e2d2a3300ddfd42e053
font_02_sfnt_off00012236.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12236 19804 bytes
SHA-256: 5c35f42d42c0972128ec7645266cf82cd21a6a3fb8626956aff70bd86f28d3ea