Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4765335aba20a9f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:25:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 733aa773e1b7181527f51e4c6441af5d SHA-1: 25b4ac3fe447652fde995fb159a461f75c165714 SHA-256: 4765335aba20a9f690ff8d7c997798cb208a38213c040223dbe7577be36b441f
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=granny+anal+porn+tube PDF link annotation
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/sizodolamaleserikemupovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hinkler.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wamaralami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pegasomeeting.medcoast.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tokasenafubenupasenakib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sankaibearing.com/userfiles/files/rawivimodepajosipibavela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lpxs168.com/filespath/files/20210901161131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://355353.ru/userfiles/file/nipedavoxazuwoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaautorepair.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/goxubebow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341c73acfb4---79246245308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shreenathtechnologies.com/userfiles/file/91454602596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://art-ball.net/files/file/lapijafixawusibifijewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruedi-leuthold.com/userfiles/files/56078054500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daotaolaixesontay.com/uploads/file/341021759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cafesezony.ru/fck_editor_files/files/91916460247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evolutionchonburi.com/userfiles/files/62386431389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khoahoc.timviec365.com/picturesfiles/lovafifomizefakifaxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rezidencianestor.sk/app/webroot/files/ckeditor/files/37119739760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://france-ex.com/images/blog/file/laximomofidodutojivafowiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookupagency.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161432fedac8cc---84406524271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulepmark.hu/nyebu/fulepmark/userfiles/file/89682225824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bahamianbrewery.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76394870676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://print-resource.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vuvalakanijumexutijisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d6ffc48af3---50837182307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevisionkharj.com/userfiles/files/76813300942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smwiarus.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jazonexezaxozowivoxopuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibkrakow.pl/uploads/files/16857479079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdknoodles.co/uploads/files/16781717642.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_off0000e856.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE856 18304 bytes
SHA-256: a636e65c1134001097daaa33b255bd5ad104f4fc83e230808b16c237680c7dbc
font_01_sfnt_off00011878.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11878 10380 bytes
SHA-256: b992461d07ac345de051b67bed6a86e65e2eb51cbaa56891dfcc5d98060c8e2f
font_02_sfnt_off00012fe2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FE2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1