Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04ff1774f18e3fbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-07 18:55:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 0259732161ee1301cba58f0f6fe21b94 SHA-1: 776d686c4def0b43ff583ed16ff9901730dfc443 SHA-256: 04ff1774f18e3fbde6eb72fec6d43c3db60a0a4f01540c4ec4115f58a0472cea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://vhz.cz/user-files/7042773957.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lltsg.com/uploadfile/file///2021080118091144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n4vfulrvslb0utalnespeakne4/xotunebigujize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a5943ca84---radonogirakajaxusapoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interel-rus.ru/test/sites/default/files/file/wipelod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/42489609224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d77e92712---xunufilijijifaveduxubapen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netcentricnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kukevekedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b0b92d1add---zulamosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtsskzy.com/userfiles/file/kunovifolixifimudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vizzzio.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/da103a3006748200d5551b2b7c9b882d/falezafegojepovok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9ln4jkfrl214cc95n0f2rdnnh/10642925150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urotunisia.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/radawigara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1961.com/clients/7/71/7137ee3fbd99c17d296746b31d66a47b/File/24781466647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/6101533062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myagreement.com/UserFiles/file/japedisubefesafirumim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gennarimaq.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089176fdb07e---timabuxaputenolizigibad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03tb7t0nabt0b6t3p88utlqq77/1439993762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobiniauto.com/userfiles/file/11297293115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/81650526790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://denizlihorozu.com/resimler/files/56727343188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspoint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nadasopafegorazajew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aclamerica.com/customers/CMS-IMAGES/file/83668362388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/89903513770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgrenginiai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58348074238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=midnight+city+corpse+blossom+pdfPDF 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_off0000c458.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC458 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 2274a314c039fb284eb8b62df5f5cc1f5ab201526d4fed397faca60022b6ee0b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ddbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDBE 17788 bytes
SHA-256: 84657db1ea4d63a8a8ee5808afdd90e2fe7e385db43f293cd5f8afe2c47a37b1
font_02_sfnt_off00010b8e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B8E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1