Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fe81ceb0d0b670c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 00:13:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 870ca215cec38ce18ea2828e581d607c SHA-1: f392e50b79d63fe463586d9d3a8283db9095f347 SHA-256: 4fe81ceb0d0b670c8652d396f38790ea917bd90c88e01d4e3e354971285469d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs that likely lead to phishing sites or further malware. The presence of compromised CMS upload links and disposable hosting suggests an attempt to obscure the true destination and evade detection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dios+patria+y+coca+cola+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://rehahomecare.com/upload/editor/files/paninelubimanusejasakepuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lustigersteirer.at/userfiles/file/xejukofirepimin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91046351928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161341536ee6d6---midewuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avtosfera28.ru/userfiles/file/xoropurafeziruzumosimisif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/livexoxulumegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76f82b92564d2eb36f231f278cb211b3/netagarulutijukokujukor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ra7a7p-h3ba7.com/contents/files/66951768871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/78595705556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartbrand.ro/mm/file/16786760987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kdg2gcd1fuh4jqe65umic0lc7k/lusemomavotexozajofonotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0535.com/userfiles/file/20210902130430_eul9kv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perevodvnegiloifond.ru/pict/file/dunaxobapudog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://franklcalabreseattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/rubudakodagabopiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mekongtransport.com/upload/userfiles/files/daradukusefufiwopopaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134175017aab---47963994117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://razaviota.ir/basefile/razaviotair/files/wegut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://velomagazin.hu/UserFiles/file/zegemupenakofotasefegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://snnet.kr/board_pds/fckeditor/2021/09/file/vuwedodokekutanunej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161425fade1507---gibedutomunofokugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612edd95a1d9a---kujujisotetozozorudomajus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qapoll.com/2015/vat/upload/files/wunup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nistd.in/userfiles/file/19605780619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cheeselicious.net/UserFiles/file/80460528708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/mivogiduritadakonone.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_off000114c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012cd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CD4 23260 bytes
SHA-256: bda469b4423cc59ebb98ecc8118d2c5eae21f4a32eb8e2a665067c0c8316160d
font_02_sfnt_off000168ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x168AB 10492 bytes
SHA-256: 712c374684e4ecdc933a7e627ce863dff415af77da65ea9d2d9cd8928261110c