Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0464cc9400fbe3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-15 02:48:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 21bc0719e464d80f63b6a0ac2c21918c SHA-1: dd3caf81f77534174bcef89a6fedbe0e470e3acf SHA-256: b0464cc9400fbe3f67c78d92a20020b8d5e938dad6a68a90084dadfab50b20d3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple external URLs hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The presence of numerous links, some with UTM parameters, suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://nomylo.ru/uplcv?utm_term=unfold+full+pack+apk
    • https://www.auto-ecole-rive-droite.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89152920396.pdf
    • http://vxclouds.com/userfiles/file/16214540829.pdf
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82ac843e10ae146e586e15cfbad59e95/41729441892.pdf
    • https://villatoscana-pi.it/userfiles/file/79466273792.pdf
    • http://koopmankennedyfeller.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/forezakozejikobavogufav.pdf
    • http://totoquynhhuong.com/upload/files/levejoxovuparizuw.pdf
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/jajejumujadez.pdf
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/42b4eaaf90d6f9ab5ed7102ec1b4e74a/filaxebaxativesexorugox.pdf
    • http://dreamsurgerycn.com/ckupload/files/katavera.pdf
    • http://recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88753383416.pdf
    • http://grupomarsamo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614122df967bc---2614163408.pdf
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fedisitaxiwupirufililaxa.pdf
    • http://polyalpan.hu/_user/file/rerof.pdf
    • https://cuisinescartier.ca/upload/editor/file/vemusatokekonusem.pdf
    • http://rracc.com/file_media/file_image/file/pakirezikived.pdf
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01ae64919997b63423ef6c58dea54169/93053648390.pdf
    • https://hotellemaritime.com/hotel/upload/files/29934198607.pdf
    • http://coutleelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zefixajejuwosod.pdf
    • https://www.leadercaravans.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41737054334.pdf
    • https://zhansq.cn/upload/file/wupakimuwowalefodiz.pdf
    • http://fullx.net/files/28044046524.pdf
    • https://safecampus.in/cmsCart/upload/file/97742632557.pdf
    • http://dekogard.net/deko/veri/_files/degubawuviwepubumibi.pdf
    • http://dfwarbitrator.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/72043211019.pdf
    • https://onlinendttraining.net/files/lifekuri.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_off0000ce64.bin
735d26e0c7f2a9c657b6ac4c63e13fa30d0596006dc556070d57da705b3e83fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE64 10220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e566.bin
c57429151faa371a26b2dc58775e053fc6cb086a4ae658f4958947697e169348
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE566 18116 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001150f.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1150F 16792 bytes