Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ba7a9ed621fd1bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.9 KB Created: 2021-10-01 03:46:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6d9a504864f09d6fb75b3cc0a50523b2 SHA-1: abd4d367c0cf1916bcbeb9b33e19251d46423c5f SHA-256: 4ba7a9ed621fd1bb9556fd1a3e606158cc44c7fe2bb6d9f288dc475b4af92519
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=word+editing+apps+for+android
    • http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/jomididakebuwili.pdf
    • https://thieumaunao.vn/workspace/develop/uploads/ck_upload/files/41954438764.pdf
    • http://fine-trading-knotwork.com/uploads/media/nasifiguvasowoj.pdf
    • http://countryclaim.cz/userfiles/file/5008826551.pdf
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/jurunarobe.pdf
    • https://harshahometutors.com/uniformkontakt/userfiles/image/files/dupixegoxex.pdf
    • http://yuhongzg.com/d/files/58313808340.pdf
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a7a886ddd---tifupudelow.pdf
    • http://dija.lv/public/userfiles/file/53271678038.pdf
    • http://thanhnienxp.com/vietkiendo/upload/file/xisuwoli.pdf
    • http://darslaska.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10748032748.pdf
    • http://veitali.com/upload/files/31311252242.pdf
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210914/file/16315743466261.pdf
    • http://akatumusics-ang.communication-pro.fr/public/1283/contenu/file/97817021975.pdf
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613305cc3e93b---61155150063.pdf
    • http://greenegiving.aboutgiving.net/sites/default/files/editor/file/fasozipoleledawexiwajil.pdf
    • http://dobryremont.pl/ebobas/portal/app/webroot/img/tmp/file/16315610951056.pdf
    • https://tsegypt.com/file/gidusilijivemusewonubef.pdf
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613190f09049a---levilusewenojagogataxudub.pdf
    • https://universitecentrale.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/danobivutudu.pdf
    • http://quranday.org/userfiles/file/22413143414.pdf
    • http://gernano.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/81382166943.pdf
    • http://liqaa-lb.com/files/userfiles/files/75540230114.pdf
    • http://www.radeton-cz.vasestranky.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sopiluloketikotuliki.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b21c.bin
0befb18b10f65492ab6d82ad74d47c3d94c6cc40b06dba073e0f6f9b22cccd27
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB21C 10620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca4f.bin
e4bdb65cae88507e1847e6e1a7a7505d1bce0349733aee76f5fde4a112247339
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA4F 15012 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef9f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF9F 16792 bytes