Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d0de6e18ad4aaea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-06-28 00:13:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 52e360c0c479c72a048d22b85251752d SHA-1: 5a73a01e67f239b4737f4c0adb5714c1321050e9 SHA-256: 4d0de6e18ad4aaeacbe8ef8afe6b73631a5355f60e38331d78c2f84dad2306a9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to various websites, some of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains. This pattern suggests the document is likely used to lure users to malicious sites for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=articles+on+research+methodology+pdf
    • https://audreyheselmans.com/_files/file/81739786609.pdf
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/68557689401.pdf
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/38f7e8c4762069a0132cee25adf6bb7d/79120169728.pdf
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/zuzubi.pdf
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mi2nc4bssagn3aplvelpp53d30/79373147304.pdf
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/18823036934.pdf
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4218a599f8bbf107a34b3094e7ce5700/resemizepovamajenewaz.pdf
    • https://vieclamxaydung24h.com/upload/files/57271894264.pdf
    • http://hghs61.com/clients/9/98/9814c5f28b4e93efd1f74733a9fd6b0f/File/soridederanabarevete.pdf
    • https://urbanplace.me/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b37acbfc13d9861f4644f8ad6b82723/gimiwisaxorolunaja.pdf
    • https://binhruamuinanobac.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1dflt2s51aksvh4agn14std1jp/42088271000.pdf
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0acf2f8f9520026244ca0d223345158e/43740611732.pdf
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cc2d38d44a---50256725289.pdf
    • https://apoc.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d815aa83e96e53e70cda8e9bf154b3ed/79478384823.pdf
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073a6dc50a3d---20609368674.pdf
    • http://raduzhniy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c7b90a6de7f---xisunab.pdf
    • http://www.linkkorea.co.kr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acebd699738---2134797635.pdf
    • https://pilotcenter.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jbvrmbgfoc128kirs6lt9rkcfa/xitorutafuludikirukanojif.pdf
    • http://taiwanglassgroup.cn/userfiles/file/kilukitazaduvi.pdf
    • https://cincia.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13266977095.pdf
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b0d932bc4d---29841819367.pdf
    • https://www.physioaktivkramer.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072b05ae8a1c---93627005001.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_off0000e703.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE703 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff15.bin
7411533ecf0db0e22105493d5cd67f9e91201c84ab471fc43088bcf5690fe4c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF15 16196 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000128fc.bin
39adf011092ef069b68e2e857984d7dc7d8d305c0109e404e0aa79a40919d2d2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x128FC 11164 bytes