Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4a80351e29e1e75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-09-18 10:02:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 132945f04e5566cea14ddd9411c51221 SHA-1: 7eb07027bdd9e2b139ff898342ca7f3328a430f4 SHA-256: b4a80351e29e1e7564980ba5e7e83715e18c4582679656b19e0b744fa9d34a9d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which appear to be disposable or compromised, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of a malicious document designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=kick+buddy+mod PDF link annotation
    • http://scard.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/86559308528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malmospelmanslag.se/userfiles/file/divexonanuxirud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://relaxbotanika.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61201338697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukatwebsitesi.trakyasoft.com/upload/files/97096608622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emartdeko.pl/galeria/file/55329128227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braintreeclinics.com/app/webroot/img/files/muguvup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livestreaming.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d51n383i9g8j107laq59mk67ubo1gtih/55047335710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiercontractinginc.com/files/file/dositewujimafabuwoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sanarina-coaching.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35459285834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivelinabozilova.com/userfiles/file/fugagete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thokhoavietnam.com/upload/files/75972156720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingsva.com/uploads/files/pozuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fdconsult.qa/public/uploads/cms_files/52236725550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tomorrowhubs.com/upload/users/files/rodakob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gz-chengeng.com/uploadfile/files/70418802536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costabravas.com/uploads/localidades/files/pexuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161453d3a73239---94760386996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agros.net/uploads/file/61891491436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ei-windykacja.pl/upload/file/mixaliwipigevowuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://businesslife.com/content/file/34383827751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://provia-events.de/pics/fotos/1/file/88612383277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/dadosilozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133063c4b39e---82160201019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daoltrading.com/userData/board/file/poxumem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000beae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEAE 17088 bytes
SHA-256: 5cdfc15e234c955da9c2970f67b5b3eb60f0c220270cac14bad37c76935a0596
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA9E 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 39588524b15a294e54efebcd408e9a5c63476d7ea189e1495bcb562c36f028a6
font_02_sfnt_off00010158.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10158 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1