Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4df074b488a83006…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:06:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: ffeecb3d99dd944624bd31b8031b03e6 SHA-1: 5ab7289f58cdab437fc0b366b0132bf7db7eadcf SHA-256: 4df074b488a8300675876ca5ec26a73b8208c1bb240e6c213ac3029b60cbdc8e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous external URIs and link farm structures, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to potentially harmful websites. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting further supports this, indicating a tactic to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=allergic+reaction+treatment+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://xn--vb0b83rba554gca.kr/page_data/file/20210810154725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/lapulodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radio-kum.si/data/files/7939719483.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penzion-pod-rozhlednou.cz/img/file/70582523060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalnoboy.net/data/filestorage/upload/files/6866564979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58ogi59e9gatid86messan0215/zajinovazik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tubietelbar.hu/uploadfile/mojalulevod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///95304937149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f748266e57fc27dd36d7c925135e530/zaketoripajeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klubbelgickychobrov.sk/editor_uploads/files/15141326924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elminhaj.org/userfiles/file/sexewira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icareonline.net.au/ckfinder/icare/files/zadasofelexez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavinlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/29280126257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pileshoppen.dk/userfiles/file/5144101019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/nunoroxivekanoxusaderutel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://churchliferesources.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e059972d92---50133117547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surmounttravel.com/userfiles/files/piropili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.caribbeandentist.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1b4537e946---75502885109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/wuluzudurujetas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-farh-iq.com/upload/userfiles/file/wijixobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinoboxingclub.com/clients/36032/File/negiwixumukedujunogafid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotelsandmartin.cz/files/file/nasitovenekepofuron.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_off0000ef5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF5F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010771.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10771 17260 bytes
SHA-256: de098f31aa64d83a185ed8d8bab484e7aedd1379667e209afd857df33f5fd814
font_02_sfnt_off000133d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x133D3 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 2259af28bc85a115497f1ef3ea4ac30c2b400566aabee5e25c3b020ead96c3e6