Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4205fd9307d9e16d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 02:34:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 441be53e514336b859d4fc83821f7821 SHA-1: 0b696d9d305d066e1d1ec6ca91587b6969a3582a SHA-256: 4205fd9307d9e16d8ab405276feb665dfa31bfa478e729d927f4b42fcff62a38
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 ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on various websites, some of which appear to be compromised. The primary purpose seems to be SEO manipulation or distributing further malicious content, rather than direct user interaction within this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

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 http://austral-immo.com/userfiles/files/50704045571.pdf
    • http://marta-galan.com/files/varios/file/zuxuxavopexapede.pdf
    • https://www.oasipizza.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa69da245d0---94106435188.pdf
    • https://www.heainc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5af83f3659---joxek.pdf
    • http://ceskylakros.cz/userfiles/file/befixonopetometogelek.pdf
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-29/20210429042611621742.pdf
    • http://goodwynva.com/clients/d/de/de91e19d235d8a3764238851c6b73f99/File/gojikubuk.pdf
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cd307716bb88ad18303a91fcff0159d/82015693006.pdf
    • http://100gastro.cz/soubory/files/7560794981.pdf
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7692c8f32ce9de2317caac460d159a7/19018180210.pdf
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3ddae344648795509941871f05efaa5/25524033053.pdf
    • http://salkim.com/userfiles/file/66463784092.pdf
    • http://famcareconnect.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607be040a346b---52493849301.pdf
    • http://rybarict.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tanovisob.pdf
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/jiguwoloxalovavivuwowazo.pdf
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65365275411b635a0cc8334355c75c98/24359878536.pdf
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/26991522834.pdf
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tvqs9f65b4qclfo6c7dd0tg6d0/deladezifemoxaxutile.pdf
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b64cca18d16---tulakibuvenapib.pdf
    • https://egyptsuntours.com/userfiles/files/rarowezuv.pdf
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd9280e8be---67156902652.pdf
    • http://recruiters-zone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160939e7bdac5f---nonemusu.pdf
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/10899902891.pdf
    • https://emmaushuis.org/pages/tepureguvajebakapig.pdf
    • https://esprimagroup.com/userfiles/file/47508464296.pdf
    • https://mission4recruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fff9f4d861---23349277723.pdf
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d830072e07---70733370752.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=introductory+soil+science+by+dk+das+pdf+download+free
    • 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_off0000c8d4.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8D4 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0eb.bin
d826a5fb3cc5a83f67da7c77c9d67f15e317354b2cb1c5761023338465269a8b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0EB 11096 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000facb.bin
0ad41df2c97f683a327290bb29b000126ef0ab9db5e077f942a8e46861ca5466
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFACB 16936 bytes