Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de4922eafac2da14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:56:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 3e986c088015fe329def8a83e3f1e2b1 SHA-1: cf8e1deac834ec884e4d29417662ee6274b26971 SHA-256: de4922eafac2da145a442558fea077113d04436ad501776e7bd3ef285e99515e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Numerous heuristics point to the PDF acting as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable domains, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of external URIs and link farms suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=materi+penyuluhan+tb+paru+pdf
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082fd576337b---somanoselizutaribururap.pdf
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/gafelosirelumewafolofoz.pdf
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47665d9f9733faba101859955411390b/298625059.pdf
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ee8a9329c5---puditapebolixuganefoxuv.pdf
    • http://merklink.nl/site/data/ws/files/sepavafadizubufumijuvijom.pdf
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/fezolava.pdf
    • http://www.inhd.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073867248d23---digafudekiwofitesa.pdf
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16117b02ceccfd---genapikatama.pdf
    • https://rpitrade.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pidojuwalojonuresolutare.pdf
    • https://stl-log.com/htdocs/cljr/data/files/lopovikawowukipa.pdf
    • https://autotrans911.com/thread/admin/uploads/file/zozif.pdf
    • http://kapelski.pl/userfiles/file/bamujetegepa.pdf
    • https://menlopark.com/wysiwygfiles/file/82489582563.pdf
    • http://deurwater.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e0d018725d---nisowikotokej.pdf
    • http://fluorescent-training.com/file/sufelupozexuxivilimez.pdf
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xenujofexitunasawujow.pdf
    • https://givemeit.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b152493ceaa7151fb7994a1e0ab4d4a/46488198931.pdf
    • http://interstyle.org/content/xuploadimages/file/bakanezuwafikupopede.pdf
    • http://www.hmh.sk/files/articles/file/rilusu.pdf
    • http://winso.tw/userfiles/file/segutenabo.pdf
    • http://whkmradio.com/userfiles/file/vebitukonafomulalam.pdf
    • http://aeronautike.com/userfiles/file/kararomedijilun.pdf
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7d8c4a2dcea3b4859c9558f27647f5c/12385613745.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b3b4.bin
416abe66f09a7b29bed392fb5e20e1ad5169d545e0cb697596686374d6bbd53e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3B4 16356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcc5.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCC5 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4dc.bin
8b3c1361d5b1dadaad7f999fd9b48e68ac3e9260a513fa9aa5e8b7b7c25777db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4DC 10652 bytes