Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 443b9c45615f75b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 11:56:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8424f12608d10806e6a83d12540eddad SHA-1: 4ac7982ea917501c1b6ef76f2c0a45aa505a3945 SHA-256: 443b9c45615f75b62a4c3c065c6eb21f8728ffb0ad11149aad9fb528d374fb84
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of external URI heuristics and the PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM rule suggest an attempt to lure users to potentially malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=la+stories+4+new+order+sandbox+2018+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://bio86.fr/userfiles/fichiers/32066436188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmikkino.ru/sadm_files/44333426737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f6d8e3893f59992333a4027a3cbcc041/45943180775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb75abd755---bidulemumapikut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artsar.pl/userfiles/file/7942172471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148189994f3e---82783845798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://felicityokolo.com/file/jubizoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatminhtrading.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/48292280902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumevivo.it/userfiles/files/24228910838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jills.reviewz.eu/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/27387881139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntschoolint.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/gafipixodarubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jmestateplanning.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/24930852618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skipjackpoke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19210177406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://electrogalicia.com/electrogalicia/recursos/archivos/pavexisivatilef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bluecreator.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76316933535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotel-palladium.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2efqk02hprs8tqo43baikgrjfr/11977433005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonio-pelella.eu/userfiles/files/matujuzivof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyko.pl/userfiles/file/wogevoniwitujobajumudato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestpokeya.com/uploads/files/xunisojiwubesibanisarogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thibiditrading.com/public/userupload/files/gusarofusiwaxov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanga.asia/userData/board/file/57326885367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapdonline.org/file/7755110476.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_off0000d1cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9DF 19096 bytes
SHA-256: 04934417a0015e6c9d8745f42314c21ca8f1782676998d161d460fe4f896a28f
font_02_sfnt_off00011c51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C51 11464 bytes
SHA-256: 0aa9b98466b0edeefa61d55ad1a7dba275b93781189c14fd492789008b6f6158