Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d473f58504ddd7fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 13:06:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 0d4a595da0c488aee3d2fe1522ec02cf SHA-1: bf3477bdcdcf6cc2d946dafa99f8bc0ab959c413 SHA-256: d473f58504ddd7fbe1e07371178d4434b5ceabde7ea2cea76b8e95f41e0f5ca9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which are hosted on disposable domains or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics confirms the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=zombie+hunter+d+day+download PDF link annotation
    • https://phucatgarment.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dixenelukafuvimuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamuiboe.com/webroot/upload_media/71292348365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.megasaludips.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3532a70d5---28933483797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poney-club-romilly-aigre28.fr/userfiles/file/momowebuxedobuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b46ca97c96---99319517495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoya889.com/upfile/files/20210904001720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecogestval.com/userfiles/file/nefivoxozum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjhtdszdh.com/v15/Upload/file/202191820168520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zofoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cobaltinc.org/userfiles/file/97368490611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://znalac.com/userfiles/file/biwepegirej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzcaifeilai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/202109050609043156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northamericatalk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c93937a74c---96618777171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailyxedayhang.com/userfiles/files/42087604278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.borzabadi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3479442986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kvizek.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gigadaboga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lrsdev.com/userfiles/file/sevarolufezova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lidaoxc.com/upload/files/75989904651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malopolskiszlakwinny.pl/upload/File/bekurivigax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/88877638283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tapuionoticias.com/ckfinder/files/74375602401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fratellibeninca.com/images/file/65686251360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hermanosvalerorecio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kugebapinogemataguluguk.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_off0000e015.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE015 17536 bytes
SHA-256: 7ab4c9e3c9e83b20b92b3bdac0ea74a8819e76cee074ef0616ff3139b1e1063f
font_01_sfnt_off00010d39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D39 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012550.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12550 10748 bytes
SHA-256: ff8b8f215da118da2cf4796169297664d43ebf850f7606cfcfae67c2f600c120