Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fadd521ae96b0b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 02:00:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 8bf9d5beeff40f29d3c7079bac147e09 SHA-1: 2563ca35abbe0a6119b6b7ecc7857f892e2db47c SHA-256: 4fadd521ae96b0b96d4d20e4378268e7ce68b4869620ce061e0800df9c9481ef
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=official+website+of+vidmate PDF link annotation
    • http://marinaxaraes.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wopaselonimalexedinef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0851gay.org/userfiles/202109file/2021091805434770554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59691872852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/34180355376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzsabegi60szallo.hu/UserFiles/File/nanilibibezevabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8b78eb7f4---redovoxufoxuwogobijirur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veiligheidssloten.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bilemodijifunenemuxitijog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wib24-admin.de/uploads/file/27916506829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kenkochaya.com/user_data/ckfinder/files/13200832151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bocrangsuthammy.vn/upload/files/27680088041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teresachild.com/upload/files/78807648393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichibus.vn/uploads/news_file/dixopojomiterojupiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zjhywt.com/images/upload/File/favoworitetijazogopov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d40f3c1d5c2d82e8e839dabca4e5425d/muniketugilozuzikej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lavishlook.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21ebdddb2e51feb63ff329d0508173da/49928175147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/zadazinudofazuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanyosushiglendora.com/uploads/files/57475258013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ombs.ru/uploads/files/60922115446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scissortailfarms.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130959511ec5---gemerusibidirepitogutir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wacee.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161314431b45cc---zonanurodutamipup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://global-brand.net/userfiles/files/jawifikusitelowofoxopul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138a57a56f1e---48687140317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcenevents.nl/site/upload/files/tovefikonixopalozikinuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rcvizovice.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78485809186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jaluzipro.ru/public/userfiles/file/90297670464.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_off0000eb8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB8C 17676 bytes
SHA-256: 19747a34ebffc1168fc3fe076aa729b33f4ceeb27e0992deca9e26463a530fb6
font_01_sfnt_off000118e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118E1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130F8 10748 bytes
SHA-256: cbe5bae53029c498bdfbea588622189b592390c016c62ebbedc9f48622bb1974