Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4246ab23330e051…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 10:05:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 18fe0bab4909897e5869f6368dd603de SHA-1: 7931a1135258832bf26da5193927855926bda14f SHA-256: f4246ab23330e051bd63c241669cd8901b851c9924ae97514a7c770fa1d60a2b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URLs are indicative of a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mod+apk+of+mobile+legends PDF link annotation
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/80661409630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alanaf.ru/userfiles/files/fepewife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensionpoint.cz/userfiles/files/kakogojijakolapepul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crcnueva.naturasoftware.com/uploads/images/files/8855425514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://z500.si/files/48307561168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunakeszi.varosom.hu/userfiles/files/82020466666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didongsinhvien.com/upload/files/61260925493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tfnd.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/565ec5c570f7b20a22bf3bb3bbf0b143/fakusigopulemoboxodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-kemerovo.ru/files/files/golinifalifeforopadesez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajaketiga.com/contents/files/jadixuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovrdom.ru/sites/all/sites/default/files/file/18188406520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fasaac.org/temp/files/28217902038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fkjz.cn/upload/files/2021/09/202109151432197646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasargod.net/uploads/file/38363077101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaztelcom.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gugejedimivelalujogonew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shengyaweb.com/uploadfile/file/2021090605575489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiodugnani.it/userfiles/files/21893572225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.limratechnologies.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309489cd83c---36377907525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6c900ac7fec3ca856cbb482bf31854d/47887748242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cuerpomenteyespiritu.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161416f4ea515a---27366185430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/4170269548.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_off0000bac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d2dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2DC 10868 bytes
SHA-256: dec209d1da54866ac605afed75bb597343b126b0913c8aa537d66ff540bcbbff
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB74 17396 bytes
SHA-256: 70e357faffcb770ccd221c11a64a9894c35ea3180e4e7a5932785623e88c4fae