Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d0255667b434b87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 01:19:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: aeb0061b14f39797b8d06a9ba33345b6 SHA-1: 69ec1a15a3702bffca507de5f3f77bce3332f43e SHA-256: 4d0255667b434b874dc6e7aeb4e9db632428951abdb1fa28589bd1879030f55e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the PDF structure point towards an attempt to lure users to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=rocket+league+3+player
    • https://mogilew.ru/userfiles/file/jawewusepatifujidovug.pdf
    • http://snft.ro/media/file/banisobewafixufuza.pdf
    • https://ipic.vn/userfiles/file/kuxagazoguziv.pdf
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614118835b110---komapetilijegiki.pdf
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gozojaberebitujubano.pdf
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/gafup.pdf
    • http://lindendirect.com/tempimg/file/62076916295.pdf
    • http://rspon.pl/images/wyswig_images/file/83368417756.pdf
    • http://dailycan.com/userfiles/files/lizusuvo.pdf
    • http://bangladeshceramicsociety.com/uploads/editor/files/gigorujakijiga.pdf
    • https://licorne-hotel-restaurant.com/userfiles/file/vonanezuzanexo.pdf
    • http://ndc-group.ru/uploads/files/46604376631.pdf
    • http://inewbus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4ip3da5hfhp4q2ha7umssdnp7/laruni.pdf
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614118685ef51---61737382046.pdf
    • http://cn-daomeng.com/upload/userfiles/files/5af4d7eb28be930a998fc571ff780ea2.pdf
    • http://szsahsh.com/uploads/files/lenitem.pdf
    • http://jdjcnc.com/upfolder/e/files/20210903131252.pdf
    • https://linker.tw/files/mudapepopumorujekira.pdf
    • https://christembassyromford.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1e041bb3afa841d34da789a01c324510/vebaretijagoromore.pdf
    • http://kanomax-nsk.ru/images/todaviwibatejoxen.pdf
    • https://i-try.tw/upfile/files/2021/09/08/fizebapesokonon.pdf
    • https://alirezamirmohammadi.com/images/upload/files/12514576169.pdf
    • http://zs-oilfieldequip.ru/d/files/pasop.pdf
    • http://leebyunghun.org/new/upload/board/files/41038660836.pdf
    • http://villkasz.hu/editor_up/1211496015.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_off0000b358.bin
7fdc30f48f76e96b6b7c93c61f65af0ad7ca59991e2347fd9e58b0a72ac5f9f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB358 10708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc34.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC34 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000e446.bin
8d811b37d4700d5fb7101f44a7303f292f1648d8bed979a5ec5a8aa8955d3d4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE446 15352 bytes