Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4774e0a3d1f1873b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-23 01:30:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9f43a2a4060ef0ea1142de6a7093ea54 SHA-1: 26e3c106fb18147cd658b0b0a4896699bc20aa1c SHA-256: 4774e0a3d1f1873beeb76dfc90b990540e88fbc14119a104b0b8e2fc471c51f1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous URLs, many with UTM parameters, suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fnf+sky+mod+unblocked PDF link annotation
    • http://fusiongrup.ro/userfiles/file/kakesapakogajevetegifor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bisenzia.it/userfiles/files/poziwukapitipovenop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamboeng.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73032839319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wienbildarchiv.com/upload_files/files/59424094947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ce3a9c8b96---nisewabodameg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayphotocopydogia.com/upload/files/25632476466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ebc93d9f47---lufupewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klawiatury-foliowe.pl/_data/file/78347091870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gimhaejazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/tusevezezorerumeripotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azbuka-d.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jiruwesojoxuvunakititav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oferta.lt/i/File/38396734426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stichtingech.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56275594391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://envisystem.com/upload/userfile/files/vavupamomejubujukowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saglamahsapkutu.com/img/editor/image/file/vijebiwerunavopipigodigag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://intimatehotelpattaya.com/image/upload/File/kilevuzosenuwetape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelristorantenovecento.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff6b99cfebb0b001a9540ff8cc3dda0b/31159444042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luiginoiobbi.com/userfiles/file/7947471815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihousing.net/uploads/news_file/83923951098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8767eb6147aece779d36f82b381c0e29/kekunet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecilingirler.com/resimler/files/58038884734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fiqa735be48e.com/upload/files/bimivexexatogal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cngwalk.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/pubedevupumatomuwezijujez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designklasse.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54063067504.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_off0000cc43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC43 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e45a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE45A 10608 bytes
SHA-256: bdc96c9dc170f66aede1705cff072035c0d52282fcaa3f698eddf2ab7551de12
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC9B 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 09403a5561d64a2cca9d0a3f4f17b1bc547ba6ac3bfef53742b4f253ccbe5b3c