Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4260bf69ea23f14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 23:49:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 78ef28650901ce4d7190dfc091c0d32c SHA-1: 454b61ef5e218cc70658ad219ef074acaeaff7cf SHA-256: b4260bf69ea23f14e733596f0c38876c7898989f95257d8b952d650be75a4ae4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond what is inferred from the URLs and heuristic firings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://dade666.com/userfiles/202109file/2021090122342370554.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://micro-logic.ro/images/uploaded/file/87494967107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flcevent.fcu.edu.tw/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210904110017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613348955f3c4---nabazeferunipejaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://podereilmontaleo.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/tibusuzuwubowilukuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarmy-kamery24.pl/userfiles/file/towosowivejepipesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsadaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34672737414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://loscogliodifavignana.it/userfiles/files/dasejotogixerajane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/28427736735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zohopinler.com/calisma2/files/uploads/86445380352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dylogistics.com/userData/board/file/18073284043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alertgy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4f80b345a21ec942ba9b43e55484179d/65643391937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/fudevopusugaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/vipiluwenijanoniwojap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5m6gaqju8mi3eg1v5dj4db62r5/62354120985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcongnghiepxanh.com/upload/fckimagesfile/59620165212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1hozain.ru/files/userfiles/files/vegimow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.be/userfiles/file/72423820070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5ky13lu3-1251.com/contents/files/xojusazoled.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asztromiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16025172052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rosizegevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fdconsult.qa/public/uploads/cms_files/44768393536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claudiodauelsberg.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c3fc413526---zedinojozamak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finemetal-cn.com/upload/files/mopapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=stream+sound+to+phonePDF 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_off0000e132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE132 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF944 16076 bytes
SHA-256: 395dca1fe11287363c4b75291ef0746f4bb1249e7a34c1bf5c56b0d0628f0275
font_02_sfnt_off00012295.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12295 10692 bytes
SHA-256: b6c3d34d5f9a50636064b9ce42f50c19dfce70d8457f1108008da858485e61f1