Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 412093d5a0782cf9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2021-06-30 07:04:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 5c284f33146ed9af3385e5e5e675a9ae SHA-1: eb7acd15044cda48e3ce4b0a9a1c15cf202e6c84 SHA-256: 412093d5a0782cf9843aae9ca4b2c7d936425f62f3eff2066d4d8df4390c0c32
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs suggest a malicious link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dynamite+mp3+song+free+download
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/6735678522.pdf
    • https://myveolife.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa3f5d6bfd86038f8a2c7b6ed9763bff/99283372188.pdf
    • https://www.perfumista.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5641ae760c77abeaa56aa4c21a5ca784/xakenidonidisixakex.pdf
    • http://bhsclassof70.com/clients/a/ac/acf0241a72c9eb28a719a759cf8a4748/File/nigikibumupisexovavojo.pdf
    • http://aptchasers.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/90310061868.pdf
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c010575a131---62994109499.pdf
    • https://seroinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12f1725c368b860397b3260a65191caf/pabipozaxulotuwepe.pdf
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c68db452c1d---getazivezadapeze.pdf
    • https://hoffmanowska.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cc5d90a42b---29945058146.pdf
    • https://cafesca.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21929211861.pdf
    • http://bursaceyizgelinlik.com/images_upload/files/zumozudifepetukafes.pdf
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d0f8a6583f13eed3efd0468561031d3/37223588326.pdf
    • http://maynenkhiinverter.com/media/ftp/file/walididunejebexo.pdf
    • http://honghuibio.com/d/files/35668291555.pdf
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/3794699428.pdf
    • http://www.a-fairys-choice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160921c7f43d32---52570078279.pdf
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q6uoonbrk1tt9bgq5up39dllg5/8205463963.pdf
    • https://suemsas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jf7jrsuo9hfl4p9nf2inrte3v2/39368739480.pdf
    • http://phenix-security.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa26f7fcf1---70965817793.pdf
    • https://edukiya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/500ebe7146e2cd5ca5a697b08ddb03d6/xekepetiwo.pdf
    • https://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b90a3803763---rogekotegujel.pdf
    • http://a-range.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160792d105be48---75384872928.pdf
    • http://moda-minulosti.cz/docs/momin/file/92631112332.pdf
    • 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_off0000f2fb.bin
51edb07f6aa8b40e89080970c2380ab8b4294ed9236f4ac634ea0ecf26d587b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FB 11216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010d19.bin
58e1051944c1e69c38c82a1721a1f5c65151dddcfbad7f003265163c83dd229d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D19 17236 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013a21.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A21 16792 bytes