Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b961011847adaf8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-09-16 05:29:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 4c080ea96203e20e1438da3011e8f4b3 SHA-1: 058621cedc198d842209f4c6b88707b10feb4b72 SHA-256: 4b961011847adaf881375ea7786acc48cc8fee2eae41e953984ef219c1f3d47d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' specifically highlights the non-clustered link farm nature of the document on disposable hosting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=portal+2+android+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://wuchem.com/upload/files/20969023418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art4you.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/suniwuvoduniduzib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobraukraina.org/sites/all/sites/dobraukraina.org/files/82355658810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sg52us2glhdq77e89dc4iua9ir/selagugukudep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maribon.net/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/39075689328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://actionsporting.com/userfiles/files/7498797287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161307a798197e---xirekojoxibugefovujuxexel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotocaroli.it/userfiles/files/5929842852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playonathletics.com/userfiles/file/dovapuxukemudop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cetinelektrik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613fe6a3c3cb7---kuxovak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horacebatten.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zixenovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrator4you.cz/UserFiles/File/37156770598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ismart99.net/upload/files/52490326118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hasmow.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25095403737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sellos-mecanicos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5f5b1f085bfb3425517f0ad557682773/gurumapezobejanulojedosu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butagallery.com/userfiles/files/tesibijevorupojeferogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cruiseship.cruises/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jmh096i196cagh77nnpk41blql/26197446933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.net/contents/files/rutugodatapaseranimuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.childofafrica.org/media/userfiles/file/8932957260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f131442b3a36e5a479900aa950a266bf/18053467972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietkeweblongan.com/upload/files/podifano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cemeba.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/kebijudaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adria-ex.com/images/blog/file/solulibut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cabanagarden.hu/editor_up/5103517737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the100voicesofgospel.ch/fichiers/newsletter/file/lenipipogilorumarafelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://membranekeyboard.pl/_data/file/57028734691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ostrichpharmaceuticals.com/userfiles/file/67659738975.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_off0000b7ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7AE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFC5 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 799441c69a000764fbdf8e5c77119a8a4d3f281df93a065bf87fc275ce9545de
font_02_sfnt_off0000e70f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE70F 14972 bytes
SHA-256: efe0da4f4414c6443d68e0f36e66f17db7d6ace173c09651ba6f616846686f04