Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04da4cb38b895e69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 19:38:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6d1593a840a81b75fd64fcbcc0ea2775 SHA-1: 89c59a0aff5f0c45cc2183ad91fb99c4ba3840ef SHA-256: 04da4cb38b895e69244be0cd30fdecfb3e9d1d8787419a2b9aaf3b71f5cc6f2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, so the primary indicators are the URL structures and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9967

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://varida-tech.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60267305538.pdf
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143ddc64fc91---42611914959.pdf
    • http://jurabos.nl/include/editor/file/14708518460.pdf
    • https://promise-land.com/upload/file/koxilolenilupepuzader.pdf
    • http://motivationandmomentum.net/ci/userfiles/files/68725262822.pdf
    • http://cpk.by/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75538724156.pdf
    • http://solamsys.com/userData/board/file/73200557476.pdf
    • https://riwg.in/userfiles/file/7679403164.pdf
    • http://niezapominajkowo.eu/userfiles/file/fupafowakulotuwijajamu.pdf
    • https://navliecky.net/userfiles/file/fataj.pdf
    • https://k-barrierfree.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210906_691EB3F4290DC152.pdf
    • https://digireg.pl/upload/riwupowuwu.pdf
    • https://bindazzled.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2befbe96b37fe598af9b6399d9c863e6/84100786211.pdf
    • http://frutapac.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dekobosotafupuzu.pdf
    • http://meghdoothsuzuki.com/uploads/nagegedezikivavejopupe.pdf
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76b6e9909a27d44a4930aae036ce8d61/17502213830.pdf
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/95017163680.pdf
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/sesazojavokejuzarosigu.pdf
    • http://bytip.net/filespath/files/20210910123127.pdf
    • http://5lovestartw.com/CKEdit/upload/files/26756395537.pdf
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/48168435139.pdf
    • http://hanasushi6.com/uploads/files/jipawajonibabekiv.pdf
    • http://dlastudenta.org/Upload/file/67554095258.pdf
    • https://pelletier-tp.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50868912600.pdf
    • https://haisanquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/95770574850.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=basic+plant+structure
    • 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_off0001435f.bin
01a89629ccfd572e3b41ed2ab624e786664aecbd2e6f1932b47dd6783adca6da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1435F 18072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000171af.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x171AF 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000189c6.bin
54e962eb141cc402ab2ea977f8ea3ee85173e26fd528d00c02cf66a9a83f752b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x189C6 10400 bytes