Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04b1fb00e128d2a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.7 KB Created: 2021-10-02 13:50:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: ea05ee8b386da4350dca02ffd810384d SHA-1: a94a42c5838a44f89623a58fa722bbaad3aeda37 SHA-256: 04b1fb00e128d2a36b72af2a0f597166eefc3ee553b4aba7ab31109bddd0f929
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. ClamAV detected this file as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and ML classification strongly supports its malicious nature. The presence of embedded URLs and the link farm structure suggest an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=3+types+of+barriers+of+communication PDF link annotation
    • http://keifo.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/duduroroduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quickfix-poland.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb2e232ddf---tepuxejedoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://learnrkb.jugalbandiresearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/55517341784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajepuwogipopoloniletadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/fepazubixavakotoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovstav.cz/app/webroot/files/files/75957317347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomistretta.com/userfiles/files/86036422517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recit-de-vie.fr/userfiles/file/12387844578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namphuctourist.com/userfiles/file/notezovogenaminujevulutiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/53641200958.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brodart01.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ok7ffflc6g6f1ukpfpggl6mfpl/59398894665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rowerowaszkola.pl/imgturysta/files/68187930455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xindeshiye.com/uploadfile/file///2021091311292293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vandervalk.reviews/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/72023454302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yipdeals.com/app/webroot/upload/files/24764944042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chinese-wall.tw/upload/files/wozubodufamewopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kapefashion.com/files/files/59835152483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oiseau-bleu-morzine.com/userfiles/file/87854550365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.etbsupplies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614dcc91666ca---luboxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-itos.net/admin/userfile/image/file/zuvosarisajibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenfield-sustainability.com/images/files/91746849230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakkestadbil.no/userfiles/file/13652791253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redeyeldn.com/userfiles/file/mujiwasodojugo.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_off0000b45a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB45A 16884 bytes
SHA-256: 79bb7a39cf35ae3b38f7106fa0d1b300db800a6048bbbc754c4f0bcb714c9aeb
font_01_sfnt_off0000df3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF3E 11024 bytes
SHA-256: 15ac653d5af3e73bf882a9669c39f8bc43dfd3152e1fa8e1943bd34bcf932056
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8B7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1