Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4a64213ad30b862…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-22 20:52:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 9542eab3e2af68ef5ea59e7159aeacca SHA-1: 5ca6971aa2fc22e795df6f8f2e256bb7fb99b9b0 SHA-256: d4a64213ad30b86216687abc2c2ec5112e10b8b84dd92441b875b50a05d25005
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs that redirect to various external websites. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting and the use of UTM parameters suggest an attempt to obscure the true destination and potentially engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=linear+regression+and+correlation+coefficient+worksheet+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://phukientubepxinh.info/gomsu/sanpham/anh/files/jenugifosebuvejor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wct.goldcrownresort.com/magazine_files/files/nopopemozepobagaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/64925376311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klgd.spokoino.ru/i/upload/files/jitexozab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merklink.nl/site/data/ws/files/23382542683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://doublehair.center/upload/ckfinder/files/74580886760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matrixx.lu/images/ginedumajikakob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternaseguros.net/files/files/22465492300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mariautonoleggiomarsala.it/userfiles/files/92672004009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://posaonakosovu.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xitolesupof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d2acaca0c3---wuxulegavaponogepenuvin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geerhannutpourreussir.be/docs/upload/files/33274640436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.com/file/woros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.depomatrial.com/file/tezokaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instant-image.net/UserFiles/Site/File/86943166517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://momsgardenfoods.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19599908582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thecandystoresudbury.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fp3r5lett50nsjudanpl3ie7rc/fibojuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bizdrive.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/1613db14a1685d---zaduridobin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://redengewinnt.com/userfiles/file/68825900398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hon-ro.hu/userfiles/files/suripetufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frisch.ro/files/file/38144215778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ingatlantv.tv/userfiles/files/50965422494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datacomsystems.cz/userfiles/file/tumosixijoginuvukoxalibe.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_off0000e967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE967 10888 bytes
SHA-256: fd23b2a0269033937fc415a67826fec83d755ab06d248e8d175f8866c495074d
font_01_sfnt_off0001025b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1025B 18080 bytes
SHA-256: df307a1342839a7faf01d95ec23723968c959d8fd6fbc405c892c174aedb1810
font_02_sfnt_off000131e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131E4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1