Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e41dec06a256eab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2021-09-26 05:07:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0d07bda2254e818bba0b2177f2aa45d2 SHA-1: fe018b6c1be43d544918e29efa4a1db4c13c7384 SHA-256: 9e41dec06a256eab4d58b5596701910b937d44a75f4ba55c7c4418343e26aeee
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, specifically mentioning 'roblox apk update 2021'. Several heuristics indicate the use of compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting for these links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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=roblox+apk+update+2021
    • https://thanaclusterwestgate.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/vonidibapikazo.pdf
    • https://protectname.xyz/whoisprivacy/userfiles/files/wawunij.pdf
    • http://twapp.freshkon.com/upload/files/gebewejojavobaz.pdf
    • http://carbonelite.ru/file/jofevaguxakanaludeban.pdf
    • http://samurairamenbar.com/uploads/files/81735181135.pdf
    • http://studioguatta.it/userfiles/files/84393625332.pdf
    • https://fultoys.com/userfiles/rerarikotopitu.pdf
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/jovogufonuwamuge.pdf
    • http://sensi-leszno.pl/userfiles/file/57449433668.pdf
    • https://laatuwhuisweerstralen.nl/upload/file/welozazuruwo.pdf
    • https://lostfoundglobal.com/userfiles/file/3355904966.pdf
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d135518dd2---teres.pdf
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3162c2cdabd6a312b57e0fcf2378f5dd/59735708786.pdf
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/55409cb1fe55cbdadbd97c13397d6b6f/luripewop.pdf
    • http://ecohouse-lab.de/userfiles/file/miretifitegesoveb.pdf
    • https://novahealthclinic.ca/userfiles/file/90272463027.pdf
    • http://www.iamgoingto1996.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427dfa159dc---tizumutajulexaxerawuk.pdf
    • https://khyatiinfotech.biz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58571216835.pdf
    • http://angel-conference.org/upload_fck/file/2021-9-2/20210902040111427520.pdf
    • http://4bzsoftware.com/Images_upload/files/56495266197.pdf
    • https://deshpanday.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69109100065.pdf
    • http://marinda.ru/pics/images/file/mobodapiwim.pdf
    • http://esangsok.com/upfile/files/60976663362.pdf
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d6790ba0f6d825b86a5d95bf4275aa5/9028234173.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_off0000b23c.bin
d50775c79adf50a3eb9da867041cb9510ff9bcd7cb73203a48bd8f23ff313caf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB23C 14568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d691.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD691 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000eea8.bin
62c462bc356ba5866fd4cb39c867339a132eca85f96b076d214b8524969a6d4c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEA8 10692 bytes