Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4976a8dcaca5a78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-09-12 02:48:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 22b1463f2f070c52b99d2dc53e3d2936 SHA-1: 3a21fc6c736a222bfeab620cda418c9f16da424c SHA-256: d4976a8dcaca5a78d5cccb6f7386bdf2e744b9c3b116fe748e47e6e0430e9195
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests a phishing or spam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mv+master+photo+video+maker+download PDF link annotation
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161395d45d6ca7---nidamajesomojuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambiance-cinema.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3671c5ff495449a37b9f8058995185f9/39139576634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seamcc.com/UserFiles/files/jesadamiludadosupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jechrina.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/niwuzilowezones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613197b889fa3---sufuwagevutiron.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunwisechem.com/Uploadfiles/files/wazilikotowovezovuwebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/vupopakonakofodanixuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medarbindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusigarunola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vouchertiket.com/airplane/ckeditor/uploads/files/zasikivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaktutzhit.by/uploads/files/59079648832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/26793377057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eros-arena.name/eros/userfiles/file/63237776905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opuspoint.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/venoganenovomofufuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xhiehchin.com/Xhieh_News/_file/kosivabitinademadef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.blackhillsdancecentre.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161389ea06af5c---1062434197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.liveartsaskatchewan.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137adcfd77dd---zikogulunivufinamiwuforu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://civilkontroll.hu/uploads/file/lidoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anonelectronics.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/upload_jpg/file/202109021702107716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wevemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szjwwj.com/userfiles/file///lofifuwinovewemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sevenseahotel.com/uploads/images/files/14365874979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riolisboa.com/images/ul_files/file/ifaB8rEtlH1W.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charmingcurls.se/upload/file/71641475328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masukpt2.com/contents/files/54373920666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humidorio.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/popitalirole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://masukpt2.com/coIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • 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_off0000d619.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD619 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE2B 17696 bytes
SHA-256: ed00ae86bccfea9005ca9b7a7ae2f2bdc6b22e2132e8249e5bdd8882dd0f182b
font_02_sfnt_off00011c13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C13 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 62b16f8e158cfd058e3b016c5b1c09b46837c36a479cea5878f634449b0d3461