Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04d02cacdbf38199…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:20:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e0a49437672bbbbc9d7cbef02581ed0c SHA-1: 5f1c7a605f02adaf852400f249a825baceb9b5aa SHA-256: 04d02cacdbf38199178993a0122097539439606ec36d65ac0c5fc9c3063fa4a1
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URIs that point to compromised CMS upload storage, disposable hosting, and raw IP addresses, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links indicates an attempt to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://anctools.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/seripilapeg.pdf
    • http://gonvvama.net/filespath/files/20210902113332.pdf
    • http://basketaci.cz/UserFiles/File/fuzozavurasimajagevefiwol.pdf
    • https://arhstroi.by/uploads/files/51560291423.pdf
    • http://www.stallionreadymix.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131656daf037---19268241722.pdf
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/49159080678.pdf
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/pixeselizezaguzalusu.pdf
    • http://iscelenie.info/files/file/20393432166.pdf
    • http://yousefmaktabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zedemakut.pdf
    • http://185.33.116.145/~acus01/upload/files/gasiboxali.pdf
    • https://hosrem.org.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vovoxosunemadobavidajiji.pdf
    • https://bgg.pirkitpadangas.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rilukulajoxubikigiguvaraf.pdf
    • http://schoonhovensvrouwenkoor.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88192498187.pdf
    • http://studiogiamberardino.it/userfiles/files/19635385590.pdf
    • http://esistore.com/userfiles/file/28810858780.pdf
    • http://www.uc-kushiro.net/images/library/File/18298335259.pdf
    • http://unite-chem.cn/upload/files/zabetifumorapemijix.pdf
    • http://xn--3bsx3iw22bmot.com/filespath/files/20210910033751.pdf
    • http://fecoil.com/userfiles/file/2463792411.pdf
    • https://www.popcaffe.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c37e782d1e19d4279b84173819b2446a/baxibisulu.pdf
    • https://investincarpathians.eu/app/webroot/media/files/viwosobukubofusiwuw.pdf
    • http://h-st.nl/bestanden/files/wivurilibem.pdf
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fab9d72b9c---tiwusabizekesevalevujexon.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=watch+world+war+z+free+123
    • 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_off0000eba3.bin
3d5d2b6c2ece67f8e1db89508ff2aa9b7c66dd6f81cc48e5d74e377e15c4eedd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA3 17868 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001196a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1196A 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013181.bin
602205c0e3b3d2abfe5f30e2b4ddbec6ebdb6365c577641dbb1b86a77f95b02d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13181 10692 bytes