Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 401a7dcdb0bf2102…

MALICIOUS

PDF

158.3 KB Created: 2021-10-09 22:59:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 0348d9d9d4a56337ceae28cfed92e9e0 SHA-1: e8ddcb23a3c5ce1d20e16b5f226c5ba6646ec970 SHA-256: 401a7dcdb0bf2102c12cf8249bc21d2e253b2994db65f1cfdbad69547f4491e5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious websites. Heuristics indicate these links are hosted on disposable or compromised domains, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9874

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=words+with+z+and+v PDF link annotation
    • http://leeandrewdavison.com/download/73204831309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinostandards.net/upload/files/82302725876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/76871514573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zopos.zohukum.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/17165829031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615610587f69a---81938260598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamboomfi.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/mamulamesupafojaledewigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twtime.com/uploads/files/202109011245152680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ymy-tea.tw/upload/files/kitikojeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phulieumaymacbaoco.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/xikimipibozamewibusafaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://singhaniabrothersltd.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45573677021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161414238710e7---82058426962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensionshoppe.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vofavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://appextskihjthj.handysociality.com/upload/files/58729002167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b377317076dc7046ab881ddb62aa308/47219598381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/jamogif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaimassagemodel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sogebunorev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamisonfurnace.ca/userfiles/files/tuguzosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615b01e9f17b8---losolasixofojuzawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosklo.sk/pictures/file/40529067777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/70080130044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alident.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/ruwubixefanebavuviwaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasco-ye.com/uploads/file/27148422974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianenricofabro.com/userfiles/files/narigagakugafafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digifast.cz/userfiles/meremat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nlah.org/UserFiles/file/saropogejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pradakshinam.com/fck_uploads/file/lurigitagitofofakorososed.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_off000200e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x200E2 23580 bytes
SHA-256: 3981f4aaf55b170eb8938251957b24532084bd5d422f73c9903528f046221139
font_01_sfnt_off00023b5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23B5D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00025374.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x25374 10372 bytes
SHA-256: d0babfd58932a68975c253efccfbee0d6b6abcef1f1f8de0a26a41cad3c414dd