Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70a1646beda47a5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 06:23:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 00f8eff2a35ed714dcd4240f26c9334a SHA-1: 375ae46e798ce619c930fc60c85c111a7cfa0152 SHA-256: 70a1646beda47a5be047370b5c5e1079733008a139fc16617090c0286818f8f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites, including WordPress installations. One URL specifically mentions 'yalla ludo hack version apk download', suggesting a lure for users seeking game cheats or hacks, which is a common phishing tactic. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=yalla+ludo+hack+version+apk+download
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134715bdb967---xerufeki.pdf
    • http://www.gitialiganjlko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32743909449.pdf
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613590689ca16---damakazogeloxem.pdf
    • https://travellifeafrica.com/ci/userfiles/files/kesolejedamona.pdf
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64b2bfa415324548cf46bdc638ea9b17/71866737972.pdf
    • http://secretinvitation.net/images/files/90574154818.pdf
    • http://chinasoftcore.com/userfiles/file///boxamakofugoxoninu.pdf
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91ve57dviosdeg41222hjg5f0c/zuparonopagixa.pdf
    • http://dynamicyunnan.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12894689795.pdf
    • http://hunting.kg/userfiles/file/daxesuvorapigitixub.pdf
    • http://hyunshin.net/userfiles/file/konozujitedawolota.pdf
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45e2566ed3837587771f58bb8f64114c/lifutovolitujimaxin.pdf
    • http://cosmik-kinoteatr.ru/sadm_files/55317786232.pdf
    • https://vsevolozhsk.mebel18.com/uploads/files/70610836978.pdf
    • http://rbtyutj01.com/userfiles/files/zetixixedu.pdf
    • https://hatinhjobs.com/upload/files/nusolape.pdf
    • http://ctmmaximoravenna.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/diniduwoxalev.pdf
    • http://bkdesign.ee/userfiles/file/fapudeguko.pdf
    • https://macauroommate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/saruvusedowevefediv.pdf
    • https://leonardscopysystems.com/home/leonards/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70876844005.pdf
    • http://dubilex.com/userfiles/files/pojidamebuzakuvabujutej.pdf
    • https://www.ijmsir.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jekukokibokazerinil.pdf
    • http://hujiangsy.com/upload/files/38817375550.pdf
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/zofofi.pdf
    • https://guruvinodji.com/Userfiles/file/muxeruporekolitalozewivug.pdf
    • https://www.afoa.org.ar/backend/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21084152511.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c967.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC967 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e179.bin
95792cac22709f393507b1e375dfe9e31189e8c402f98232b6fcb8a6357207d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE179 18856 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001129d.bin
46ea014fa4b410a15654274d1953e68fcfa2b73bb82bb976bb4c682e33302771
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1129D 10840 bytes