Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 824a4aa856f45cc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-09-10 00:37:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 7e5e62f2ba6ae4c84427846fbd0a7b39 SHA-1: 8cd27c5c476f29419e54cdd5ba6e18c7d04e0a0a SHA-256: 824a4aa856f45cc90fbac06f3aa480abf193348d521b9c5fe35d4e03c6edf6dd
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as a malicious PDF by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of embedded URLs and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=car+racing+3d+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://onlineadda.organicemall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35257835477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longchimvac.net/app/webroot/uploads/files/93782427924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monikaknoblochova.com/userfiles/file/12750292371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/73ee9ed07799513aa9ac55204ee06f26/rotubezululapirikopuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dekobonner.de/userfiles/file/41948200630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acrgroup.nl/userfiles/file/15879436458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khonggianmang.com/upload/files/80704128968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/20298569746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connect-event.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31756494481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betentour.com/sites/default/files/file/53386349559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweatrinserepeat.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xujaligopasojasiped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triumphtoday.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161329b267e2ea---64318092933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psoevalledeabdalajis.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36937634697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekinyalitim.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/votosonixov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tion.hu/upload/file/wofozepujinogovuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phunhai.net/upload/files/76665421081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hadt.vn/upload/files/92467793978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klawiatury-foliowe.pl/_data/file/zugibirufoxujud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lucky-erotic-massage-bucharest.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rasunopadalemobujisexuvod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dellalontra.it/userfiles/files/93878173924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ba978c7c56539352165a27b99736ca5/nasenuzodiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eravukappalpalli.com/userfiles/file/mijurixoduvegew.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_off0000c28d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC28D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000da9f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA9F 17012 bytes
SHA-256: 49bf94113966134033b22e6ad1195e2418b036e8c4a9f194439c0747008e0534
font_02_sfnt_off00010686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10686 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 140168be9a332a6de65cb88ed20af60b7b978dafeb8f223113f5af56593a324a