Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4073fa89e5a2fb44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 05:17:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 74c0cf1588114421e76a3b57425cc715 SHA-1: facb0fa08698383b79d75ca35041943bb1407836 SHA-256: 4073fa89e5a2fb442637dd3f8ffd2e5de57528b6b3d689b7bc756c930436feaa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://ibookingkr.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210916_23AD5ADA7405F50B.pdf
    • https://ever.dacola.com/upload/files/88238264961.pdf
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613347fa70a7b---vudilogedigafisuriru.pdf
    • http://eg-connect.com/uploads/editorfiles/file///xerejas.pdf
    • http://szwygs.com/upload/bazeginilatibasaxo.pdf
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v7374773471r235jelcl99pfki/piroduvire.pdf
    • https://cakenflowersonline.com/userfiles/file/somuzerixaroxagazikedo.pdf
    • http://thekreativecompany.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/retudud.pdf
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/37469504925.pdf
    • http://hindustanadvancedsolution.com/t/tutorfirm/uploads/ck/files/kixokajobisoxezazowomil.pdf
    • http://www.la-rocca.pl/app/webroot/files/files/12785453598.pdf
    • http://montex.pro/uploads/userfiles/file/94846079040.pdf
    • https://newcar-rental.com/uploads/files/202109100318316805.pdf
    • http://nguoigiupviec99.com/webroot/img/files/26082299521.pdf
    • http://tecnoservizi.com/userfiles/files/36199311479.pdf
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354b8d2f912---89016831004.pdf
    • https://soalmatematik.com/userfiles/file/polaxavubako.pdf
    • http://adveotec.com/img/file/jojal.pdf
    • http://adas-muko.pl/photo/file/wigijifikifojowemavi.pdf
    • http://vhz.cz/user-files/nexosup.pdf
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/76150518030.pdf
    • https://daqing-jewelry.com/uploads/files/202109121928505545.pdf
    • https://keyseries.us/userfiles/file/61989290460.pdf
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/88977578311.pdf
    • https://toptenstudy.com/upload/files/BodyFile__6144D8ABD1E80.pdf
    • http://glamour-nsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bisusemuluja.pdf
    • http://pharmabiosolutions.com/filespath/files/20210904004944.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=naruto+shippuuden+336
    • 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_off0000c5a6.bin
d39b8ac5614e85158565af8c8a47e201cad2751ebfaa6125cf25a9e2dae6d712
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5A6 19604 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f91e.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF91E 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011135.bin
2da8c16797cf822e8c2b74ae7d02a73f6d532fee0da02acb2d8211610b8cb03b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11135 10860 bytes