Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 408fc9cd2a0aa7f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-23 19:45:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 97a4dbbc65e55ad5ca29fce224c10967 SHA-1: 6bf42f0f8a3e447dbd2570a0b1d34c5af3ab2253 SHA-256: 408fc9cd2a0aa7f462c8c3cbe1b46e36dce76fe2c5be201b5629ea39832ceca4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting sites. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt to track user engagement with these malicious links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+draw+a+bike PDF link annotation
    • http://hzxf.com/images/upload/File/detujatusub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatename.com/uploads/files/202109232307229330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fpcofmacon.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/guguvofikudore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuongiare.vn/upload/files/fotojefufatazavelon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/ferorujaxejidowebexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elma-itc.ru/!upload/files/21615166644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://namadagaskare.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vetoxavajat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/51204662844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariocamali.com/userfiles/files/javajab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex.tj/img/file/legutenomofoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hmed.vn/upload/files/ribibonarilewaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ms-krmelin.cz/app/webroot/files/files/gakubatazulodup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sixezokefuvavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://website-design-company.in/dev3/damodar/ckfinder/core/connector/php/userfiles/files/puvowozekijov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamwn.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/resavaloratonadodojap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://n2nnetworks.com/files/others/dekofomatobulikasapanip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ef6a7eb1964ccb745e7526111b2d51e/65362052601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatachau.vn/webroot/img/files/47802321579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0faa72058fab70965297ae70bffb967/72938395105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614a082a59a4a---tudexobediwuguju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mehmetrasimmutlu.com/icerik/file/garabopojugifakefekiwepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arhometutor.com/userfiles/file/kelenubiniteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/guzegelixolexela.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_off0000c32f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC32F 16876 bytes
SHA-256: 4bc2cc2dba705532114d78ba5045eaac2b185b3a35a40a09924f734f9baa8583
font_01_sfnt_off0000eec0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEC0 10232 bytes
SHA-256: fa4ec23cbc54d1175af6d45dee26e1112a4550b832019d6e2b8603c294d4471e
font_02_sfnt_off000105dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1