Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a28aac0bd8d73ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2021-10-04 06:13:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 01975046785cb4c395b71074a59ee931 SHA-1: bdc8a079672d8f132adbcd8625cc4b57e476f3df SHA-256: 4a28aac0bd8d73ae700f279afe34d2ff0eec755be148f0d2b550a47ba361a1f2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this, indicating the document's primary purpose is to act as a lure to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=eso+fit+to+rule PDF link annotation
    • http://aburobocon2019.mnb.mn/uploads/files/fajefipawewerexesezivipez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zivotzaokny.eu/res/file/51318971215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuolascifondocortinadolomiti.it/userfiles/files/3058492322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asalsold.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c99abf08a5---doboxanole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxationplusmn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/055b8b26c57be5a73048481445d64e39/15827014219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askaudit.ru/price/43096130971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicobonoli.com/userfiles/files/pofososojedare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rspon.pl/images/wyswig_images/file/44777372991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16158bd8b1adc7---86117888861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpu-beratung-brendle.de/userfiles/file/4412901840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoangvan.vn/wp-content/uploads/files/36447819258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.organicemall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruxosaginutasobexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://life-homeshop.com/asset/uploads/files/risamuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfapilates.pl/upload/file/64324193448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/nagaviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/zevevipuxodelubasipixos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briztravel.com/upload/files/tuwufamuloresodekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valencia.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/48928063974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--h1aaebajlcgx.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/97678554529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abogadosaguilar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65652196110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petra-dario.info/upload/datoteke/nuvibapisuxud.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_off0000ac8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC8A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c49c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC49C 16304 bytes
SHA-256: 58ded62b91aaa055b022abbef4b72dafddd4e24d559640d8cc41bd90b7d5654c
font_02_sfnt_off0000edb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDB0 10024 bytes
SHA-256: e3b7703f8fcfcc0abcc39e092b765cc883bdae6d4527369ee9ec9eda0bad94d4