Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 443478a9d4e8d6fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.3 KB Created: 2021-09-27 01:48:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: d58f39a3c575956c3a970cd8108fd660 SHA-1: be64efeb766bd1e257d2c4662cded35b5214f294 SHA-256: 443478a9d4e8d6fdbbbc97e725a7a7e04031df939382929bc45605258c34ad01
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs that point to other PDF files hosted on a variety of domains. Several heuristics indicate this is a link farm, with some links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and others on disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution through these linked documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://altronic.pl/!mag2011/userfiles/file/8828008002.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aadq3ae7aa5k.xn--p1ai/upload/file/jugugidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc025.com/userfiles/file/20210920044409_7zfhnf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/jusekokejatega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xingzhongjing.com/userfiles/file/20210910193619_1979640145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://creationart.hu/files/file/3341694374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ort168.com/upload/ckeditor/files/9881471309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a9882306598937d806c567edbf27aaca/bapubujipumovobivezadif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palyavalaszto.hu/teszt/upload/file/gapomosunibelunibutesun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gazeta-msp.pl/user_files/File/jofedul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuderprogettazione.it/userfiles/files/duzunomofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zechnerbau.at/images/content/files/99604861037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verypool.cn/images/upload/File/86383464452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://talesma.com/E/file/13393461333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirieriavioane.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147832bd9f58---19120480851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotronics.vn/userfiles/file/zuvapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuadernos.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614ec6f899cfd---jemazivemabilafesulis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamjagolla.com/uploads/files/ruxudufuxaradisorekati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/dupapajogixod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bruceautoservice.com/files/file/85833892351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulga.ru/editor/files/xaxubirizunuwejulaxunok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/lerafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614efe3df21c3---bovureduvuzamiveg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handgun.ee/media/file/48766357285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=vlc+player+for+android+5.1+free+downloadPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b1aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1AA 15256 bytes
SHA-256: 33e37942f8343f7b6b783b4d4754eab54ea28664f23f7c17c2db4912aa57a93a
font_01_sfnt_off0000d874.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD874 10768 bytes
SHA-256: e737cf1b44f012a74424372fc917dd98314d32c8368bc12ababcc79a30d24bbb
font_02_sfnt_off0000f178.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF178 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1