Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d252c9c2c25329b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.0 KB Created: 2021-09-18 18:23:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ae4079edbdf4e2c2feafd9bc50f6b589 SHA-1: 43058070b2d21347cd6169696074955b8fa3cc93 SHA-256: 4d252c9c2c25329b6c31ba97adb916690f6e02dd10d8b78eeda69fb351a5c4ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristic firings and numerous URLs are sufficient evidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://12shio4.com/contents/files/58027749134.pdf
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bmt9o4lkpev5nqpfh8bs9iprcs/49004339550.pdf
    • https://km2804.com/ckupload/files/rejebimu.pdf
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/momidugipojiriwadegerop.pdf
    • http://machinesupplier.cn/data/product/file/2021911_121053_803.pdf
    • https://eijo.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bekisobizisiret.pdf
    • http://hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vebivonojaxirofanuwilup.pdf
    • https://drproperty.in/userfiles/file/bulodanogabu.pdf
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138f9ab1722c---1639760901.pdf
    • http://greathorserider.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93380221175.pdf
    • http://www.marcelasemper.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135a4023f717---80006895540.pdf
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/fefoxalid.pdf
    • http://xn--939a66v0zjo3bcvdmrp.com/data/ckfinder/files/24149774310.pdf
    • http://an-ocn.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daloniwagasiluzum.pdf
    • http://rezidencianestor.sk/app/webroot/files/ckeditor/files/tanirifajejop.pdf
    • http://radio-salsa.fr/php/rs/filesupload/file/nobupig.pdf
    • https://stl-log.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/kukatabigazozo.pdf
    • https://www.opdrrustukalac.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a3c86e5c6---40188977520.pdf
    • http://owop.challengersports.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rogixemosol.pdf
    • http://pxmonastery.org/CKEdit/upload/files/90238807014.pdf
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210912_6501D456C6AF39DE.pdf
    • http://swotaweb.com/img/upload/file/47852093870.pdf
    • http://dkind.net/userData/board/file/zafawoxitadi.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=thermoplastic+rubber+properties
    • 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_off0000f24c.bin
2e614f3d2c9d29e155997320050a08338b975bbcbafdb9b1ea854986f650b211
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF24C 18012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012183.bin
c230604826d9a6385ff833c5e33c30ff2e4e94d62bf300e7e160be02e3933dc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12183 10736 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013a00.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A00 16792 bytes