Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4da4c00e5e449f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-06 22:52:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 077d9519ca33623fc08904cd186371ad SHA-1: dab5a3e7579b6dc6fd8b86ed603e29702176fbce SHA-256: f4da4c00e5e449f41b8d3916012d405be313983f4485ab4232bb9fd7a89dc1ab
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a malicious document, including malformed streams and a high ML classifier score. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' further supports its malicious nature. The file's primary function appears to be directing users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

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
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=recent+advances+in+biotechnology+2018+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://phyllisrubensteinlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/forig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beewellrx.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/fanaremozakases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dae2b2d70f6---7145296593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woykoff.hu/upload/file/1150336580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcdesantmarti.com/biocop/Images/images-editor/file/bixubeteboxano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f10e70e658---94816062907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orourkelawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/nijemirobon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bogieclassof67.com/clients/71235/File/bisomapejasemopofakamosif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811643338fe---lesekelum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dondepodemosir.com/userfiles/file/29303543887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benardoutlite.com/admin/fckeditor/fckdata/file/31076142245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanceltg.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b547cf32bcadd9a3ec4d7119dc14804/85509801892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b59f2e65ee8---7466176741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.3dreamchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/65d82190b21d7ae17500f26a1de6e1ab/29662465759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbnbd9chja.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/16405637488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edarky.net/data/file/ganimixumugusakoxetus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnibat.net/uploads/archivos/50896446878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkjt.com/upfile/file/8950203444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16127804b22a89---pivogobopawirelasuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivaldelmaridaje.com/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/zogixubinodifajobuxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kevinbrooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4e5c5824f9---33549125406.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_off0000c253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC253 17544 bytes
SHA-256: 9e8e5c8e11415803860c5a6c599f141f97f3fc7d8e6c4c6731ef902a281c2cab
font_01_sfnt_off0000eeb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB0 11668 bytes
SHA-256: 49aa3541b789cb437e04d07e7d19a86cf843a5044d4e8a07ead54ae802363d58
font_02_sfnt_off00010a1f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A1F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1