Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f033a02dfa8cf3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 20:43:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: b974bd43f5f34ac747970c228ea47699 SHA-1: a131587928d2ef25191571aa2787af885cdf640e SHA-256: 4f033a02dfa8cf3c77ef991aa1ea4d0e539a6ce6f5c63be4f708eb5fd2abb33d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised WordPress sites. The presence of numerous URLs, including one with a 'utm_term' parameter suggesting search engine optimization for malicious purposes, strongly supports a phishing or malware delivery attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+galaxy+s5+for+sale+in+karachi PDF link annotation
    • http://rc-saty.cz/gais/image/file/83247703975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goozzl.com/userfiles/files/52423442122.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stitesattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/78687440783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kachhiproperties.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/137d9ba2c2b54f7db26209308b38e454/mojonanigivipiwup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adtw1.elfjane.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81636426077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/31489932813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://812423.qqtogeljackpot2.com/contents/files/tezafarinajezimawib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abril.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7nk5m29q0jdi9e4lar92mkgo8b/fibenimovejixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://projekt-lesen.de/userfiles/file/17008731538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/sorizetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halanmilk.com/upload/files/nilixamukuzirafewej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turasmobilya.com/img/editor/image/file/goriwetajazimabetatipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autohausnschmidt.de/userfiles/file/polipunopuzununurivabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nolimitscenter.be/peausitive/images/FCKeditor/file/sivudibugutifelavozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portakalweb.net/home/portakal/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86209382404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flyingfish-stay.com/userfiles/file/kigetul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkjz.cn/upload/files/2021/09/202109170712252367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thietbivesinhanhhuy.com/asset/files/49942105278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-yachts.de/res/wysiwyg/file/97724734610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kliningstroy.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a13f68dab0---19886262550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c7dc3b3ac4b7081324cbc7f2aed726f4/81674937930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csp-pub.com/stockages/files/69936493173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jupapijutoworodip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryukatsu.com/userData/board/file/wutudowid.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_off0000b41e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB41E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC30 16392 bytes
SHA-256: be1ca8d2e5ab264ba34a7438147ba97d1394cf690f7c07f8a3df30760e8600d5
font_02_sfnt_off0000f626.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF626 11300 bytes
SHA-256: eb1812a9ae7b667194ecef11d80d6a64fc12b5a67b2d48af2e24c941fa785e6c