Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 655a20422c241222…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 02:46:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 4d069c3aac9bb0d81f94de867423520a SHA-1: e403ac5114eb26918a23ac58dbfef4d938061491 SHA-256: 655a20422c24122242076196b3b231cf6527ad84eecb1548e0de8c579b4d3e86
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to compromised CMS upload storage, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=untold+legends+android PDF link annotation
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130dd8f8a378---kunokefomebixerotexot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gegefikufixarutomabas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hidropro.hu/upload/zinalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://njuhome.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7355660317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alemarferries.alemarsnp.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61550719889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ebenisterie-burette.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zogulur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/nolobifofunivimebunoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidsjeodo.com/images/files/30296715509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjsgreatescape.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/wapetavakozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://librojuridico.com/aym_images/files/13833921093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livewireeventz.com/userfiles/file/wenibewibotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businessincasey.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ropizinuxijifozawox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dexgerm.com/data/file/userfiles/files/47836432152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dialog-seversk.ru/jsplugins/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gurubuvoxaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaas.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/89462222132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mya1fc.com/files/ckuploads/files/4894454863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mistral-paints.cz/userfiles/files/60205216692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://machin.kr/userData/board/file/doluvakudomovikagakoro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.die-umzugsfabrik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ce0715448---xoxifalegemaputenuled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chipgene.com/image/files/20210902_192438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161320d80e1703---35436557719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukeofmarshall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zarufijawobogebuverufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galenbio.com/images/upload/file/vokuxogojolelusozaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://net-mex.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7950143932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotecnicopetrillo.eu/userfiles/files/xewifu.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_off0000efaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFAF 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 72ea982fb3f19663fd72644a0fb8b9e8d8febda6d2d689c9655516c3d019bcc6
font_01_sfnt_off00010739.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10739 17588 bytes
SHA-256: 7f753ae198f4c6271c0bac0191033f69b0d472d288a058eae56f369283aceab0
font_02_sfnt_off000134d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1