Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 782435aa1a147aa5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-09-19 17:50:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 5acc086ee093ca83aa3680b901de4aba SHA-1: c0ab189b07d75d085f56d6f219f9d26d268e6d02 SHA-256: 782435aa1a147aa50df1f238af302c7fc9d5443651ffe0e89e63a0c05bbed095
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be hosted on disposable or compromised domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic point towards an attempt to lure users to malicious content.

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=clear+my+phone+storage PDF link annotation
    • http://scoutpate.com/userfiles/file/maginoborogaxiwixerobajap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/28854974380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://invismortgagebroker.com/images/file/sovepijufino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/rapasiguxulidabobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/324097038c2bc909bf82ba463eaf55ef/vumumuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9w3b11kh5l.com/ckupload/files/tuxizigudedisovuzetosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omonetach.pl/foto/ilustracje/file/89269947618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralcomservis.ru/crn_fls/crn_files/farakizesuxunapafurike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://magicfood-cn.com/files/20210919145304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yourhealthyourchoice.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140e4ee0ce07---90869976577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jcl178gnejlj6h725kk469u30p/pogiriwudavipaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicoptere.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408fdf4cb39---damatenoresosuneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/kelonafemudisomixemefoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congseng.com/uploadfile/files/28493454871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vtaky.sk/media/file/16228072743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aesyq.xn--p1acf/files/file/regibazugabovezaridoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gesema.com/UserFiles/file/tigisogola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://challendor.com/fckeditor/upload/file/tutigunugipusifolok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1agjlwjc3g.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60910213275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alhasooncorp.com/Files/files/lisinutobekitidekutarigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://total-sport.pl/img/upload/files/76520277762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baominhlabors.com/upload/files/44590048548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--9i1b14l32gg2dsybq3b.com/upload/fckeditor/file/dozetevabijefigetifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://basalyemek.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gatotolufuwe.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_off0000ed67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED67 10752 bytes
SHA-256: 2a98b05f5f3ca8b3e7a4bbcdc5d62f9b33597e8634a0f8953d1219b6664958f8
font_01_sfnt_off00010606.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10606 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011e18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E18 18040 bytes
SHA-256: 4bb1e2c0b81963f1b3fbb3905c1b1ab6c03f8f4c190881818d7c212552d10078