Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db756942a5725968…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-09-21 10:28:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 4c9bb03e19f05112023b2a82513fda85 SHA-1: e7edfd68bfa9a559f569b45c3b50a9c469675642 SHA-256: db756942a5725968e01f5033f85ccaa4e0b2b9870d6f0d5c73ef5c45cf37f56c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely serving as a distribution point for further malware or phishing content. The presence of multiple external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=download+game+robot+android+offline PDF link annotation
    • http://naturalmis.com/userfiles/file/46637665329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://booburger.myagenda.cz/pictures/editor/files/50647021460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/689621885c1ca3feb9708471426176b2/bitolixuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://impressivetravelvietnam.com/upload/files/zeropizotopitozoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/7253450730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armagedonspedycja.pl/files/file/kakefofisez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bijverhoeven.nl/uploads/files/jonepitikakuken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omnistopbollards.com/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gajawifobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16343542080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campermagazine.tv/public/file/97582979288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panda-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/xegifonetalulisemirob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlssj.com/qianzi/upfile/case_editor/file/48093879149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup4.com/contents/files/daxoniseviketanod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.logistiekverbeteren.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88450780772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-machinery.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/66647758344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gyermekhaz.hu/Content/site_images/files/12701283360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/94720666456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroyvodservice.ru/upload/File/tifatijoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpscrm.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/35916623544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99308225755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckeditor.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40733165204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--54-dlcdkamdj4btild5b.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lomoxuwepudemofitetidomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ad199b1ff9adf139e72cbf45eb9928e/97733954470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prosquash.by/data/bewavipetowobigopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1acb3d3bf126ac807c245fa3eddb64f9/57740439047.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_off0000c38d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC38D 16568 bytes
SHA-256: fbf9c80e5cbe3539fbcf0de04b56606c052316be0208e599cdc1d888f289372d
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE49 10756 bytes
SHA-256: 6b54d80bfda2ddac0a6e44f82e165e49530496661eae9a04c45ee1074e7623c9
font_02_sfnt_off000106d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1