Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 468bbb4974f0a344…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:33:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 2bc7e94b0e5bd89c55cdcedd93b46bc0 SHA-1: 42469218b17a3015819bb8e2986d30a856b40cc2 SHA-256: 468bbb4974f0a344638945f99197b945d4ffe06d9fae5f37d839d56785735f3f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that lead to compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt to track user engagement with these lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+uc+pubg+mobile+generator
    • http://studioguatta.it/userfiles/files/84393625332.pdf
    • http://didaconcept.com/admin/fckeditor/file/tovolusobawebizano.pdf
    • https://noks.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16141d76201a89---42339342760.pdf
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/jitefiwogaperedevuli.pdf
    • http://familiegravesen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xaxetajaru.pdf
    • http://etalentlink.com/uploadfile/file///2021091601140395.pdf
    • http://dastone.ru/userfiles/file/fojej.pdf
    • http://vouchertiket.com/airplane/ckeditor/uploads/files/20035592366.pdf
    • https://safarekhoob.ir/basefile/safarekhoobir/files/riburufa.pdf
    • https://ofly.om-digitalsolutions.cn/upload/files/sisijelokunizalopawevug.pdf
    • http://thangmayedex.com/webroot/img/files/22244057828.pdf
    • http://www.nena-artspace.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vikegatanipuw.pdf
    • http://olsztyntransportmedyczny.pl/userfiles/file/zazerezufasagomaxim.pdf
    • http://daejonggyoyc.com/userfiles/file/20210913092910.pdf
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f560fea4d3d65b31249772d762954c08/4886583025.pdf
    • https://tecsal.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416a2957170---81274748550.pdf
    • https://beauty-full.ru/uploads/files/jikovegivofo.pdf
    • http://viethanit.vn/hinhanh/file/57380442651.pdf
    • http://asr-net.ru/uploads/files/mawufodozuvewuxuxega.pdf
    • http://anthonyjcincottalaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/77345087904.pdf
    • http://bishnutoursandtravels.in/userfiles/file/55318407053.pdf
    • http://bpsstudio.hu/uploads/19364398948.pdf
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/38962411722.pdf
    • https://hilanguage-com-tw.triangle-design.com/files/89215897326.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_off0000c7c4.bin
57335034811b6d6367241cd231ea408ab135c457397073b98f01bbdf021b5da2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7C4 16732 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f375.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF375 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010b8c.bin
b44e47c7618c0c7175fdcd3ae0d4dddd37e405454a4d07768ae6f813eaddd5d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B8C 10764 bytes