Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4245e9291d2aa01c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-10-05 22:04:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: a50977d9e56967ba8d75822e603b1c76 SHA-1: 61c40cc03d45a952e8691c5e750b458db7658f82 SHA-256: 4245e9291d2aa01c90088498c7966b6363cd2ec8c00b45c9b352743e6955e810
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. Heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm the malicious nature of the file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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 https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dr+subrata+bhowmick+nephrologist
    • http://bantinnhadat.com/users/files/tuxefofujetuxuwaxe.pdf
    • http://nceed.kr/pds/userfiles/files/67259013542.pdf
    • http://kalmi.ru/upfiles/files/wijejobutu.pdf
    • http://podhoru.cz/userfiles/file/madefajonotepevaxuro.pdf
    • http://villabrown.it/userfiles/files/kanekijobepuna.pdf
    • http://stickerbarcode.com/file_media/file_image/file/23153935424.pdf
    • https://esofagopisa.it/userfiles/file/xugix.pdf
    • http://kliknetezde.cz/admin/obrazky/file/93309522094.pdf
    • https://km2804.com/ckupload/files/1960292438.pdf
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea407717aa8a80d231432dfa57880bb5/jexeg.pdf
    • http://totalfinance.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16156b06899bc0---52760762141.pdf
    • http://www.putnamtaxi.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a16e492d8d---paxakoraverojilagonelap.pdf
    • http://mijn-nederland.nl/userfiles/file/wigijamatakipojorigi.pdf
    • http://elcolono.net/userfiles/files/76794210467.pdf
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16155bb8d7fc8e---21942673393.pdf
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131158b858fa---43060448952.pdf
    • https://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3505dd5261d02858fe60dd92f7e5665e/nejodisumojuzomopamo.pdf
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1615163d88da2b---65500490229.pdf
    • https://www.isnb.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5a7db4bc1db195948e45a1b7e545bb26/61417772555.pdf
    • http://nhasachnguyenvancu.com/Images_upload/files/94883477792.pdf
    • https://xnkvinatimex.com/uploads/files/15595532995.pdf
    • http://pepinieres-soupe.com/userfiles/file/30636812026.pdf
    • http://ferramentabelleggia.it/public/file/gitigafigobitawimidojafex.pdf
    • https://www.lsv-wittlage.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/49252982501.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_off0000ca8a.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA8A 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e29c.bin
58e4a77b2acb97f12138b785c2952a7c41e5c736d7ca57b879dfc9d5841d596b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE29C 18436 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001122b.bin
458326903013dfe2eb43787ea51b7ee913a5864063ed8c9cd2e47ca1c802cb67
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1122B 11240 bytes