Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3b4547f24b4c994…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 02:10:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 4647822d6924509647ace2f5c5e302a3 SHA-1: 7b4c2b7a39863ee368936482795455c702ad0d05 SHA-256: d3b4547f24b4c9946724da2e7b936d18b8c9411ba77c32d21e946e528aa66dd3
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to external resources, with a high-confidence heuristic identifying a link farm on disposable hosting. One such link, http://artistalexanderkanevskywinnerinternationalaward.com/clientMedia/file/sexixugiroxixenememo.pdf, is flagged as a potential entry point for malware. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support the malicious nature of this PDF, likely acting as a lure for phishing or malware download.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://artistalexanderkanevskywinnerinternationalaward.com/clientMedia/file/sexixugiroxixenememo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://incomsistema.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20182415598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/50491831464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanyangtextile.com/userfiles/file/72065770663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607eb6496589b---22773796429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avandcie-automation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/10356612905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glcore.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nopelapesugodulupozulop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ainut.fi/userfiles/file/wimibatufaliriwalafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://littlepearlspublishing.in/data/eimages/file/75470637975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banner-ever.com/ckImg/files/rumus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnhhgj.com/upfiles/userfiles/file/duraz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hurtowniagrafit.pl/userfiles/file/guvutejawareg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://obermeyer-modemarkt.de/upload/file/nijelajesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimi.sk/userfiles/file/49622191475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d387b4b453---gaxoxomod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petrovsky14.ru/docs/files/vaxuwoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjsprt.com/uploadfile/file///2021052521221885.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takeacode.net/user/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e/file/kurazofifamup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teenmag.cz/userfiles/file/pamaxeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d0291e2ff63---84731640314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2665071d2a---sixuwumijazininodotiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ab7c00e9f72dd1202f9db54211ed094/93399293671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://status-go.net/gfx/userfiles/files/fotuxixinaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/geforejilufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ib+geography+syllabus+2019+pdfPDF 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_off0000e8db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000100ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100ED 18292 bytes
SHA-256: a1068411c383f6cef646aa0147ce52f94a49eebb3f70e33fe6c190aed8b71ed1
font_02_sfnt_off00013057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13057 11248 bytes
SHA-256: 96a365d3d560f7e090c3ba94b29d6728238fb478aed4265066880bb31704734c