Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b652c475fee1f7ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 15:02:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 458398bbc169a29187492fd2a6fb4016 SHA-1: 9f15d062ef30d5a0549de543978d925ec9ec3c5d SHA-256: b652c475fee1f7acc5875b0da884838f6404f7c5fb25e1adcbb6c9b6ea31e406
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many distinct hosts and URLs, some pointing to compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV also identified it as malicious. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious external sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a phishing or content-luring attack.

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 https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mortal+kombat+2021+kabal PDF link annotation
    • http://logistra.fr/ressource/site-image/files/vetuxogojekujagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearcon-eng.com/file_media/file_image/file/34614008761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rlmahtani.com/userfiles/files/81908430359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161382b502b3f5---49186359941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaan121.com/uploads/files/202109070656296930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmar-e.de/userfiles/file/76406464581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elektrostroy.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4090137151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gencshoworganizasyon.com/upload/ckfinder/files/bidaxojopodolikagutivama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rzfmuhasebe.com/userfiles/file/53374685538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmt-tw.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/lamepawanopegov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22d484fcc9b78da6b91b56e4bd9a8c71/68343222170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gardensyellowcab.com/admin/images/file/ragevurajekozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isystemlab.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37579692948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzo-galeria.hu/files/file/zalazijoligedudodaxonokaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stnicholasway.com/userfiles/file/18511697235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limadelimon.com/images/file/jogaraf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lionsmarsala.it/userfiles/files/luserovixobakipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carthink.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613450953b1a5---losivotejilofinubox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lahma.pl/_u/userfiles/file/jobiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interiorconsignments.com/media/file/pawazepidodubut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulators.com/d/files/52282408020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pamatudarbai.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/detid.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_off0000de31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE31 17748 bytes
SHA-256: fb60a536f2c764a5c56318a796c5333039b49b413b64674498edabc8735e5759
font_01_sfnt_off00010ba9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BA9 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 571f392172b8dc73e659a63afa8584b8644f5728525da3f67043e9ffb3d544f7
font_02_sfnt_off000122f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122F7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1