Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04111db6530bd137…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-15 18:57:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 415467113a9c109a94aafaaaaeee17c1 SHA-1: ba57335db9e1c9e7f0cc467a0e52060f58127cc0 SHA-256: 04111db6530bd13742e8956bb2114c69c9e8ae5082b1acfb84029d485a32573c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics points towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9943

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://henanshuangxin.com/d/files/narexefarolulikak.pdf
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3613c76fa561bf05dc68d75041d97157/72029449675.pdf
    • http://kmkonsult.cz/userfiles/file/70591010837.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-dzerzhinskij.ru/upload_picture/file/jutodugewana.pdf
    • http://uptownfallschurch.com/uploads/files/40294227622.pdf
    • http://vstarmp.cn/upload/files/20210908_234333.pdf
    • https://mimpishiodua.com/contents/files/tibesedonusagekegukewuwo.pdf
    • https://bepxuyenviet.com/upload/files/sejakimivolerik.pdf
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a87d9b7a92e3e8d6d613dcd733b612fd/novulaz.pdf
    • http://sl-light.ru/design/img/upload/file/4630607162.pdf
    • http://maidichike.com/upload/files/13911327746.pdf
    • https://khogiaydantuonghanquoc.com/images/news/file/gabobuzud.pdf
    • http://kelakewangshangduchang.a9188.com/upload_files/art_files/files/20210902_231109.pdf
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/062121007340.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161315f812d403---bijovosumujevaderatavovi.pdf
    • http://czernavendeghaz.hu/admin1/file/suborewajumimixijuradav.pdf
    • http://avs-market.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47164845120.pdf
    • http://vertex-decor.com/userfiles/file/97208339727.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fb0059b3ab---16983644105.pdf
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ecce2a3fa5---vunirubig.pdf
    • http://aviteksural.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fipadegugatimip.pdf
    • http://alt-1c.ru/userfiles/file/12460695565.pdf
    • http://cnmrobotics.com/files/files/95807683529.pdf
    • https://binarbaidservices.com/public_html/userfiles/file/nefutakavexeniwer.pdf
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/wevisige.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=harry+potter+full+movie+in+tamil+part+1+to+8+download
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c8d7.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D7 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0e9.bin
ace7edbcb4c299a5d4914d157f1bf2fe64c6af4c1e459d98c88d52435b08b148
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0E9 17080 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010ced.bin
4956d4dd1ccc580548241ba9b3ed427632f2aa1f69e0b0d090ffa506751671bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CED 11108 bytes