Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4dc22080bc27119…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-09-19 04:35:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 323eb616745b4521bf666484c789fc8a SHA-1: b22946da484a87f4068018eec81ddd0d07a1f88b SHA-256: b4dc22080bc271197c3af14d357e8b6f9d296e1ace02dac1c2a1295908bd6ab1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with several heuristics indicating it's a link farm hosted on potentially compromised or disposable domains. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable binary data.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://vngo-cc.vn/cooker/public/files/zunogefenigeweti.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xn----ftbkdcamitb5h.xn--p1acf/files/fck/file/96781603926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nationshield.ae/userfiles/files/sanozekevefekivuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4a772eff6f4db31fe66a80d8908a535/78692508036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lotusburbank.com/uploads/files/40370226110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profstil.az/userfiles/file/8130662328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demkapi.com/resimler/files/40307039397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cordovajewelry.com/images/file/75878260661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giovanniseneca.eu/userfiles/files/werupuzupidisexalapumove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bike-aholic.com/UserFiles/file/37884530611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----ftbkdcamitb5h.xn--p1acf/files/fck/file/jopavexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podlahypilat.cz/admin/file/19334081202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://web-sila.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5651796c057ddc7752d220e2e5f9c81/reneralav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bancasemecanino.com/userfiles/files/72534126770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161353e42f3166---84573537424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doctornhospital.com/banglanews24/editorsfiles/files/73557750595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sklepbonus.pl/userfiles/file/51847989113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncsccalgary.com/userfiles/files/47553563457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jobibon.com/admin/userfiles/file/lifuvarobeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://praguynakorn.com/praguynakorn/picture/datapro/files/jurazezokawokosasuwezuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mecaniquekd.ca/upload/file/poworewomapudebuwusuwowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hkwwta.org/userfiles/pagar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kcde.kr/userfiles/file/1053818935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10fci.org/userfiles/file/82240558723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/xasekenupodij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=tamil+hd+movie+download+apkPDF 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_off0000d92b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD92B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f142.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF142 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 3acfbdbea16a43eeda7d912ec5a306e9d36fcd052c0b767a74aa0afa0cc37ede
font_02_sfnt_off000108e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108E1 17696 bytes
SHA-256: fc9f1f5fc2b598fe6a1e94fe31936753c4167e120f09d381c8aebf1b0d057d72