Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4070b6f1011d584…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-20 01:02:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 416d954676ed25596d3325c49887486c SHA-1: 4c02eab6da7eca93b1ae6724dcceeff8e3e0699c SHA-256: a4070b6f1011d5849481a871fc23b15e4b725148e6e7ae1e41d3982ac893a76a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs, some hosted on compromised CMS platforms. The presence of numerous URLs, including one with a 'utm_term' parameter suggesting tracking, points towards a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=field+runners+2+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://joeun-it.com/userData/board/file/jopimemepanoxef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://megalightgroup.lv/uploads/files/doruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lndekrpd6303ee2lqc1rque2ld/41397921730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jungleflightchiangmai.jungle-flight.com/Uploads/files/wujigotijagefinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innersolutions-uk.com/file/56297534385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/50521710440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvpartners.be/images/uploadedimages/file/77006036252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thieumaunao.vn/workspace/develop/uploads/ck_upload/files/15161560616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hattoco.vn/images/ckeditor/files/49194720792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ovartec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613413e15144e---3175597135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aafkqcanfpgnhbng3b5i9a.xn--p1ai/pict/file/25705308819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amgaa.org/temp/files/69389414791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebonit.light.bg/includes/libs/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67794714301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://relaxzenter.com/uploads/files/26918959315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luckyfood.itweald.com/uploads/files/61436e39a0be1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archbot.pl/files/file/1574299546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivier-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tisototujegogutulimako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a7a88edde01f895b20ce94e285fdba9/nigukisinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denda.co.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6774181029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poltinka.ru/userfiles/file/zemekebidilabenazifekifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/9330609674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irrisyst.eu/files/file/68966897465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://app0.linkeo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76981895162.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_off0000b4a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB4A2 10456 bytes
SHA-256: f9c7c14d5f898a4c40ccc6e78d85755828bf39b34e80bd7848f16378ce0d8563
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC72 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e484.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE484 17096 bytes
SHA-256: 70ea218ca6cb5dae777a33fa5b31c0ef99fbe2a68846fbd626ef701400ff33a8