Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d1f7eadaf1d094e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-09 22:43:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: dccfb05c5ac145d541c2d1b92cfd4664 SHA-1: 4d19099339993797f4b460628f4024ed41bd12c1 SHA-256: 4d1f7eadaf1d094e5d50e2c2f1875762b03851380e2af1144fa058c69fbdd82f
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1553.004 Mark-of-the-Web Bypass T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating it likely contains malicious content. The heuristic 'SE_SECURITY_BYPASS' suggests the document attempts to instruct the user to disable security software, a common tactic to evade detection and facilitate further compromise. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggest a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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://twinslock.com/locktactyuma/userfiles/file/gemuladinafudabomobupesi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wxbeimei.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109081159086611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef5fb4ff8fd9f207f364953054a0dfc9/ginedofew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pecintajp.com/contents/files/7128577704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speculatio.in/ci/userfiles/files/56368155098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://levin-dent.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6583670d91b567e170d98e0983da5519/22991112167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aakritidigitals.com/userfiles/files/tokasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/danusagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braindevelopmentmaps.org/userfiles/files/86310949828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtd.com.pk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29226086186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.marbelitesa.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ef7c2f2b35---38723187014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomorecpapmachine.com/userfiles/files/sofuselisigepofakimazodus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138d3be17ec6---joguxutolituwinekerego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dermalab.pl/userfiles/file/73256252963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://standardamulet.com/files/files/xofofupoviwotorobowiwikif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkimm.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11311413868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanitool.ru/userfiles/file/denedekitaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.eecpowerindia.com/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95026173067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hefcom-hydraulics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4615733439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andeanskyline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136bc8c8e65d---79966123961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekonopuntos.com/campannas/file/47316385108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arisutour.com/ckupload/files/ropuzamofiruravasobaforiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f9038e4e63---80710150352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.poolsrus.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3720659187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=app+lock+code+in+androidPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000db94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A6 17188 bytes
SHA-256: 814de98da9d38de4ac6fef99a2b8d72714d259ca75a302a601d89b591fd41907
font_02_sfnt_off0001201a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1201A 10316 bytes
SHA-256: 056391f6105fd230c3335c77ba04430f6d274f2297c1766d7457f2deb88f5124