Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04298e0334a36f62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-09-05 02:49:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ec4c1d78fb5652a5ed902312c1cd2a69 SHA-1: 26dcb0c56e6285d48847d68dcccbd4113a159410 SHA-256: 04298e0334a36f626ff84e42e0cb0807c6e4ca35ddf8c4b40808ad7c2b43c47a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of these links suggests an attempt to redirect users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9969

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://apskarota.org/userfiles/file/33276568554.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://marcuspietrek.de/MARCUS/files/file/18433592276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/29012899494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willismctyeire.com/clients/c/cd/cd1fd5262213d36872a77bd42df049b7/File/43375874808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k9-warrior.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc02qhhd68d8cpfgqoudjthvqq/nulonakupufowakufixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/78601839030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmarlboropike.com/uploads/files/kopewikegupelifituneguso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/wujituvidotel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keacg.com/upload/files/gabadizisexomatuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status-go.net/gfx/userfiles/files/60358526820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.halpellet.hu/userfiles/files/tiditulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamexmarket.com/uploads/files/51463257091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610e7b7e34e1c---39737880019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hsegroup.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g7rdfstbg62b7kedvguq1r2lt5/37808011534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtylek.pl/Upload/file/16512206851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h49al71atridzo.com/userData/board/file/3451129487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab6d49fe43eb2831c92325bf71eb4097/10461316366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ke92jid6nahujqeabmeslr85ti/zilefesekofilowutivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mt-filtration.com/uploaded/file/113443780560c75344bebfd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szalkasszorutacskok.hu/app/webroot/files/content/files/wudiladimomupexifoseragu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rasathantrananotech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5170537796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/89395885807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mopron.ru/upload/files/zunozumipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+soundbar+hw-ms650+manualPDF 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_off00010e5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12676 11232 bytes
SHA-256: 942d741e1b1cd1ef473de9f1127efc9e271262e79c57d60e58a6e47355c2f7f7
font_02_sfnt_off0001406c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1406C 19632 bytes
SHA-256: 524abbdc0914ec87c716724b42034de0e409936dc1e475a77e651bc7a68f4641