Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4cc68f4249d259e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 08:18:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ad314686ea15c4c011833d04ce6a65fd SHA-1: 4db133848916f768f05aa7b8a76c17bd3d991b00 SHA-256: a4cc68f4249d259ec91a6f595b9f71bd83eea38237a1be1c1c199dee5b30de14
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate that the PDF contains numerous external URIs and links pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains. The primary purpose appears to be directing users to potentially malicious websites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=airdroid+remote+camera
    • http://zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/file/57084546461.pdf
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907080629345619.pdf
    • https://grandhotelbulgaria.com/userfiles/file/3307045837.pdf
    • http://gediklimakinahidrolik.com/resimler/files/31283450748.pdf
    • http://masterkontroll.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30474058306.pdf
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads/files/202109050110221795.pdf
    • https://nutrishop.in/ci/userfiles/files/60073807614.pdf
    • http://mamaskitchenorder.com/uploads/files/kovojopuzutovinogodi.pdf
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0473a14b732327ef1776cfb1ffecd320/majupip.pdf
    • https://homestayhoian.vn/uploads/image/files/saboduwanulogoxemex.pdf
    • http://maiodi.com/userfiles/files/25625932151.pdf
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161388cd86be1f---74169576089.pdf
    • https://998.geektic.com/geektic/files/65630021385.pdf
    • http://ryyw.com/upload/files/2021/09/202109060926081359.pdf
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386b1e5aaad---ragul.pdf
    • http://hzeiger.com/userfiles/file/mejasuvizutifipotam.pdf
    • http://hodinovysoused.cz/upload/file/53998338676.pdf
    • http://meyergarden.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zifuneb.pdf
    • https://ms01bet.com/contents/files/5184459608.pdf
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///48786909085.pdf
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133974933551---sorabud.pdf
    • https://kvzriu.org/images/file/kusumukobosa.pdf
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0n631e74ubkhkm2igg59v69i07/85029985641.pdf
    • http://pilot-market.ru/new/files/file/makunijijibelujedebilo.pdf
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/sesomer.pdf
    • http://wuxihemei.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210902_085529.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_off0000c20b.bin
96abe145d57d59d9bfd2f584015e54d14641a4a6b89edd713aca7f961c6868d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC20B 16480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec76.bin
d8b5a6819915a368976bbb3c40b904eed1c60676da978d50e78b3fa0b09dafda
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC76 10196 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010354.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10354 16792 bytes