Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d09d61d5b89a587…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-08-17 11:48:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 6b050e3efa7638955816dedbf8a52ce9 SHA-1: 0f43d8df5f608830defd9db50a85104cc7602711 SHA-256: 4d09d61d5b89a587a77b5dc29eb63a86d6af107f1e698f370f4d8387f9f06a65
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and is flagged as a link farm, with several pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The presence of embedded JavaScript, combined with the ML classifier and ClamAV detection, strongly indicates malicious intent. The document likely serves as a lure to distribute further malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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=hack+hill+climb+racing+2+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • http://langmoon.jp/js/upload/files/faxarejotevuvusumixuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desense.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/40606349244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://havanic.com/cache/fck_files/file/tufap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fusheng-vietnam.vn/admin/webroot/upload/image/files/49607441968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-abroad-travel.com/ckfinder/userfiles/file/68713754191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weinquartier.at/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab8a41767ed9396257bea5534bc146c0/kokesugodaligeseluviziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ailizia.com/userfiles/53016470313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hz-karavany.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suzivig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cornerstonelaw.eu/userfiles//file/pikusevovozosixomipan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paintingservicesonline.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f39875ed7a---35846542546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flomogroup.com/upload/files/47915177861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/17206301366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609fdbecef8f8---9808140459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vdgairconditioning.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610f84c7d51bf---24139774280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legacyltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6465a1532144311f81a530411141b119/gapojodidezafimet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mixedclass.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ursno55vnbic1bjggub8mi2u0q/nufidamufurapuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edbacba356128f5442236e1475200aa6/47176768635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ffd25c5325---54237477879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://famillespourstarlight.ca/clients/a/a9/a9b42c05011d3bb27e7f7ec2ed30324f/File/maposojepojim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/llii98g1nfqeemo1v34jfrn8os/62155532509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089b138dd642---gixijepenekomipemusixiwub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://co-wemart.com/careeruserfiles/file/mujovatuzatibotex.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_off0000dd10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD10 16404 bytes
SHA-256: a2ef02c3d563f9cc5ee9f5cd587e5756e6f19d75b77cdb1dd115dc342606efcb
font_01_sfnt_off0001078b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1078B 10992 bytes
SHA-256: e63acedf306c68f8a8fd34ef6927ecc992b7d09292175a96fa465b9780183cfd
font_02_sfnt_off00012071.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12071 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1