Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d20564d0c4f7d81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-08-07 01:49:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: afe6341201c7af1cda4f23d5dd47997c SHA-1: 5d86bf47fcee321211195d356efa2ecdb3f39040 SHA-256: 4d20564d0c4f7d81ec6af4ce03d62044534290ec4f4f929e0ccd45a2ef024f8d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains. The presence of these links suggests the document is designed to lure users to potentially malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution, aligning with the Spearphishing Attachment technique.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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=f1+qualifying+rules+2021
    • http://aucoindeshalles.fr/menu/file/vowojaduxiruburesokokuli.pdf
    • http://pedraferro.com/files/files/38531237422.pdf
    • http://mousike.it/img_ins/files/20052624111.pdf
    • http://cnzgks.com/userfiles/file///14045063652.pdf
    • http://sl1971.com/clients/5/51/517263f0417f9379c67e6eba0e0bdfe8/File/83765368438.pdf
    • https://chp-travel.ir/data/file/62621565443.pdf
    • https://mavibusiness.it/file/45724038960.pdf
    • https://www.ayersworthglen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fdf0e196cd2---puvimuxowiz.pdf
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081b83000d13---35686276762.pdf
    • http://bluecars.pl/userfiles/file/94585099538.pdf
    • http://gostium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb4a9cac34---97682508721.pdf
    • http://asustainable.com/global/file/bemovepido.pdf
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h62np85ct21h07bbvqavkp01e8/9122686935.pdf
    • https://gangnampools.com/contents//files/63304220510.pdf
    • https://cerquilho.sp.gov.br/public/admin/globalarq/uploads/files/13564312357.pdf
    • http://baloneacessorios.com/_upload/file///1761049863.pdf
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160af70eb7ec8d---torewatirumibij.pdf
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/medelifolovuxifumisez.pdf
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210430213007145.pdf
    • http://www.radeton-cz.vasestranky.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5602883892.pdf
    • http://geredekombiservisi.com/userfiles/file/pawasijipepijugifobemi.pdf
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ef063dd892014fc910da90abe27e69c/49205724024.pdf
    • https://simovi.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c1c08322c37---gusajiwu.pdf
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c137da26f81---79915036055.pdf
    • http://polish-house.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/63988190602.pdf
    • http://bakoca.hu/files/file/dukatatoxebaropukuga.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_off0000f578.bin
4e5a9b3d6410c934a2543c6cebc574280db937f2442bbc9453e0eaec2bbc4f06
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF578 17128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012254.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12254 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013a6b.bin
655cb90e60add9e0a7029e88e944da59309e0fe502d37d494627ce06084e853b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A6B 10804 bytes