Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d4a1fd57d41b98c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-09-28 13:42:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 7c9b639583b8523a9f8ed7156b871e43 SHA-1: b58e114f31006126b0271a3a5f63a10e4c4b21c7 SHA-256: 0d4a1fd57d41b98ca073f13d071cd66fe58fc029f74bfd36aeca60ffd5998a3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=selena+full+movie PDF link annotation
    • http://yuhongzg.com/d/files/24239094723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161474db43e664---naxefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsemilia.it/userfiles/files/52668481684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2girlstrippin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136cef8a913f---solipokokufiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etpatatietpatata.com/userfiles/files/30097886471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tobn56.com/UpFiles/file/4421462121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeanthompson.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43862009980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnews.md/upload/userfiles/files/76072279320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzhero-sudzhensk.verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tegosob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas1.com/contents/files/69802132213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schturman.ru/files/files/32773964501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.de/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/14482006823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hauptlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/24391154616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klinok-saintp.ru/files/zejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-domodedovo.ru/upload_picture/file/zaruvazem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613944e1755d4---14644084123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equator-maritime.com/userfiles/file/jusal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insei.eu/userfiles/files/rozirofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ylwlgwadmin.ylwl.cn/upload/files/gekofuvoxogepiwawirujebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://datenglagi.com/contents/files/85980184405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kligi.viart.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7499234474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pcetravel.com/files/file/17739569019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogathoitrang.com/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/78525564852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms2oke.com/contents/files/63768588500.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_off0000b4d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4D4 18440 bytes
SHA-256: 59f1cc9c0e68285284842b9bba1e2b672f7d36017d971ef5b1b4262ae95a163f
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B2 10248 bytes
SHA-256: e7bb661d6313c62789597782511e7a8f0acdc4c1d63da4689c2cdf1016bbe9eb
font_02_sfnt_off0000fab8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1