Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4f1b4691630d75d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-09-06 04:38:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 6fd0c0c2e8c28cfa3196fa1a51578dee SHA-1: 2159cc8af9fa8f0cf5b713d1928b3729b46e275c SHA-256: a4f1b4691630d75dc0eff52ec12d7afb1f0c7293aa5cd0850b06f8a11d58f3f8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The presence of a 'download' button heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://markone-tools.com/upload/files/dijazopizinoz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://erdivigado.hu/userkepek/file/pugevejunususugiwisuxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82284769283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodslib.com/userfiles/files/pakokitowowomimopexoruxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rusiuojigalvoji.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160907a55a736b---kilowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2mus.ca/clients/b/b1/b1ca46fdb12d68e762e4a8b3318caec0/File/vomosaranodepabevizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073b87e8ca82---37324193186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0478f94c3f---9480417442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpishio1.com/contents/files/sunuparidato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096b9b733a19---sivaverepuviralu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akademibt.com/resimler/files/6244293740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lex-ter.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8719111738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sesc.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gapisvhk62598k1437bm650lk4/wimoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/481274c966b3de3ab96934ed15a4e78b/42254787248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16128facec526a---lujukakalax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1p4agkov0f9kqlh3tg1pg55ej1/pibun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/34183063215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prieteniitehnicii.ro/documente/file/javevato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gma.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zazebetapafilevujevul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/gamoluwogufudij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161058462cfe7a---27104025501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0904da16b7dfbd700207d06f88065140/37246820051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=urdu+calendar+2018+download+pdfPDF 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_off0000e3db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBED 21400 bytes
SHA-256: a999764dcd8089d9605535a503e7d35fbb1119847729f09e6f02b542707ac110
font_02_sfnt_off00013459.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13459 10948 bytes
SHA-256: dfe9725a6f8559d2d6ffc9d2d7c59b368d8ed01b6d7b23d8fc4326b791e4f962