Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 422db87caaa2ad3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-05 13:01:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: acbda52aa78aa37d6364594aa85c1b26 SHA-1: 5d7851fbe3bd0a06cc1692316756d45eec6b38dd SHA-256: 422db87caaa2ad3e3a1e7f3bfb78190355555b2df1ed4f4edd853d637cf7de03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised or disposable domains. The embedded URLs are likely used to distribute further malicious content or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=statistical+inference+2+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/tesif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.com/pictures/image/9772869572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tscyw.net/userfiles/file/20210821040030_p1ygl6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vuvuzasaxulokuregudefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48bbd530cf---mowunelutegorip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hitecds.com/userfiles/file/wotofexabujomavaxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalzilembo.it/userfiles/files/32525258445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/79041308761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f8ocppcr0bbiht44rp3em97cpk/41118470759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c658f18a488---malixoreradodelekigedego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalgroupautos.com/files/others/28734266372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/vijidekiviwebifuporixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8d74035309---8386655914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.winsum.frl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6900363127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/varoxewepafasobomumazawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://loan-financial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3885c8fa1dc80cef29435529e084c937/85255854794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://watthaistuttgart.de/userfiles/file/23382780903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://samuiluxurytravel.com/Uploads/file/26073291225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golden-candies.ru/webroot/files/files/27190338454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://diversifiedhumansolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/159bfd2122a05ebb5c1b923a0af26c93/14301499992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nidi.mk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/madosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://apinero.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079930209172---zarujamabinavovafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.wikiwebagency.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d20eb81bb97a0e05e2900ffd0bf8b1f2/20610072600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://location-appartement-venise.com/italie_documents/files/fifirepuj.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_off0000dd85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f59c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF59C 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 9df78825703b40f7e2575629a7ea2820c730c6b4ca068162e0d02fde2cf835b0
font_02_sfnt_off00010e35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E35 17068 bytes
SHA-256: 8918326448c48b2ff8fe1f9c3209fb53e981517d968f783a5cc165401222192e