Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ab4e68111481213…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.1 KB Created: 2021-09-22 09:27:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: da501dfb315a796bb4b406c9f62efcc3 SHA-1: 885e5198c8ad7a32682e4a9df6897d07a5e2c109 SHA-256: 4ab4e6811148121383ef01932acc5c2198782023477275cbd9c94f87f7c63215
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms points towards an attempt to lure users to malicious sites, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=pokemon+go+union+square+download+ios PDF link annotation
    • http://baugeraeteverleih.de/benutzerdateien/bisirak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/24466567006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incomingmakedonia.com/files/files/45469878872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegaoyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wewobiwoniparilizojut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maintogelonline2.bet/contents/files/69480357984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomsuhoangminh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/72316544043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matras-devison.ru/upload/file/xifemune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6ee9d03384313994643e420ea67174ed/pubexanavokog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiemhoamo.com/data/dulieu/files/31854699047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buffagiuseppeinfissi.com/userfiles/files/totuvurotegen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jenistudio.com/upload/FCK/file/71523672847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97591441150.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natalieshuff.com/uploads/file/tikafuwagewunezigapizaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giraffeng.net/infodaily/gen-ckfinder/userfiles/files/teliro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylivediamondinventory.com/uploads/files/fatoxebib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinice-rasy.cz/files/file/fuvuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maria-galland.ru/files/file/75404550882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tetobox-budapest.hu/uploads/files/xikotitamijalidijipexalis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaxena.com/bpms/includes/fckeditor_uploads/userfiles/file/junejaxetatelosifexamow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigdoughpizza.com/uploads/files/zafatiduwunenunojesas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sklep-pinokio.pl/web/uploads/files/derusinemisugubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajitutorial.com/admin/userfiles/file/monatikit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://johnmichaelharrisonlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nafogokuretavudenoxona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestforfishing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40ef29c6ba2c8e6e850bb7e4412dd8e1/zujupus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://in-dapt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e629da153---getopodijobojunin.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_off0000de25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE25 18164 bytes
SHA-256: d713fc6f4f2e38c8597390c12ba029ddd773aeaddb09b7551a3355064e8c5934
font_01_sfnt_off00010d87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D87 10920 bytes
SHA-256: d2f9ff61e12ad1979134395da1613fd288687c69d6a1861095301c4cf3fd99b7
font_02_sfnt_off00012658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12658 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1