Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f674102a3fe1db1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:34:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9fb4d95f392a0d5a061cadc91df32ee4 SHA-1: ed4494e4d48a7abb4106b2ca05f61b04b35e525a SHA-256: 4f674102a3fe1db1ba323c5e318f3992dbfcd81ed6677c2a9c290dff90482844
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The document contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these link farms suggests the primary goal is to facilitate phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9979

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zombie+ate+my+friends+download PDF link annotation
    • http://eubeer.vn/uploads/files/55066220192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkconline.com/landmark/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74982854494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bushregenerators.info/userfiles/files/lodizejirudeguretutuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhadep30giay.com/uploads/image/files/sajozexof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/peneravobebiverew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.garriagricola.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378cf9ad8ca---94527774425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pegvgcp8b8dbh1ish8du1dllt0/86183473943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucholainfo.pl/userfiles/file/5760624940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandioso.asia/editor_upload_image/file/80246928824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elegune.net/files/galeria/files/85991624297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomdythai.com/userfiles/files/pebuwunokukazusutuwej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1careglobal.com/upload/files/9511344942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tea-ra.com/user_data/upload/save_image/files/65160007303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/wegojoralezosatoditujuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bharatceramics.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99264601433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportschoolindex.nl/images/uploads/juzipobasezafuwuzej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aolisenjiancai.com/data/files/21792848605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aburobocon2019.mnb.mn/uploads/files/68724293596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thingsantiquesla.com/userfiles/files/lerovefopujizagonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16148235fcaade---7694154398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-summer-courses.eu/upload/files/kerazakog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rdw-wolf.de/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2909940672.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_off0000ee14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE14 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001062b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1062B 10820 bytes
SHA-256: 83e0526c27e32d55ac6bfc979afdbe8ad34307cb117aee0839ab5bf530942521
font_02_sfnt_off00011f30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F30 18508 bytes
SHA-256: f44b0df5e7a6ada1984966d07ac7c214d3bc4c5fa77747a367d2745c1e212649