Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4ec4355892496ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 03:06:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: abc4d1b3a6d42d393e3870f68419f1fe SHA-1: 848598a2499f79889a5be98273a732f686f36891 SHA-256: a4ec4355892496ef4448dcbf072e004c1cf7489dab88bbaec23442f70227b31f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, likely to distribute further malicious content or phish users. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://hazeloyun.com/calisma2/files/uploads/55961781864.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://empresa-venta.hr/files/12592189678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valencia.thepokeluau.com/uploads/files/sotomebumobasonur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palazzodiaz.com/userfiles/files/34718549158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangladeshceramicsociety.com/uploads/editor/files/kokugora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tsssport.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161491f12c6814---badutoguwukedififubovewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mdsalon.ru/img/lib/file/53646741249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didaconcept.com/admin/fckeditor/file/39199172119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vln.nl/files/file/pimadifovatuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesomenoise.hu/upload/file/74404144112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://srihemkuntsahibfgp.org/hemkunt/userfiles/file/37906574806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.parquesanalbertohurtado.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gonebezatoxutosovaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chickenwild.com/upload/contents/images/images/gejivaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tygodnikzuzlowy.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69893448794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.officinadelgustoroma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c5f3523953c7e457a837a46f9dee2a7/70266615080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b0fcb01824eb8f655e72e5eafc4754de/32496176159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://essuances.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nolakumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42065469524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christmaslandint.com/userfiles/43552757911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/84693691882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elpijisystem.com/file/xixigepufiparubewoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161397d8b490e2---tamizijapoxaximoterosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://makesrealsense.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pajugasewalaviw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twinslock.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19938434146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euromarkcreations.com/new/fck_img/file/zulodatavaxijimexutewav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=high+resolution+wallpapers+for+note+10+plusPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000c782.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC782 18080 bytes
SHA-256: 39ca332d54fe67038566b6d52e491ea56d9bf5ecd84e494239bd81eb3704f3f6
font_01_sfnt_off0000f65a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF65A 10988 bytes
SHA-256: beab99221501cd33dce6c516a1830ccb3365342d53cfa3c7942b1b0f0a49a77e
font_02_sfnt_off00010fe0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10FE0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1