Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4535c294d120512b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.5 KB Created: 2021-09-16 13:44:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c61398452b5647d155121bfe583a0d86 SHA-1: 3bd0c51198547fe706858081ae262db26143e924 SHA-256: 4535c294d120512bfaf74a2682dd7c7f8d751f149ff874f02b0f242ca822205c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded URLs that function as a link farm, directing users to various external websites. Several of these URLs point to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a potential distribution point for malicious content or phishing lures. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+gems+for+coc+without+human+verification PDF link annotation
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/58255774314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bluegreenshouseboats.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138bef7e1c36---25972746555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanyuchina.com/upload/files/jopudejawifoloramasiriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paradoxine.com/upload/files/70524255096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0a3exp.com/upfiles/editor/files/90394659856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tese.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20615223234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rts-wm.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54773619063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wine-paraphernalia.com/files/winep/_repo/file/mepuliribuguguzisebil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlsxjy.com/right/UploadFile/file///2021090319505873499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://devveb.net/userfiles/file/defipafiwisapidefenufor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogiovannone.com/userfiles/files/zidudixexebuvadimegip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614145eb3c64b---58199326219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoigolfbinhthuan.com/users/files/39006042484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613af8389f1e9---1577456198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daa5e27659a774d431009647996d0fa0/33360875327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brihat-group.com/assets/userfiles/files/zatopesinakixuvuraliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmclimatizacionhvac.cl/images/subidas/file/naperewureduvebobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rentcar888.com/uploads/files/202109011227306587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/95678849115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belean.pl/userfiles/file/jolevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gramercy-grand.ru/files/file/62284804119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://satyavnetworks.com/fck_upload_images/file/gusototepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkycc4.com/kycc4.com/userfiles/files/wutujixaxisawevidalal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://assotechne.eu/userfiles/files/9504713933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d68946ed2222cffb9a48bf47b4e5029/zasafowojowafidimut.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_off0000b3f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3F0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC02 16852 bytes
SHA-256: 014b37e2d5dde2b5344129d9be8685ce5e3e2d85e4138d24c9171cb2801f4ba5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f73a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF73A 10964 bytes
SHA-256: f7edb2b1a82202958c08fa2b802cb5f42b021f584f0f2ad19a4f4fd52f7da612