Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4e762aa06685014…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-29 01:25:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: dc0554e81a001ad9ca95bbbf15bebb11 SHA-1: c3ef08bb15279beb358a95713ef0e406e3756a30 SHA-256: f4e762aa066850140899f07c9dd2befab527c397498c931d197aa95f23258877
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, many of which are associated with compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings and URL analysis point to a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+unlock+auto+focus+camera+android PDF link annotation
    • http://babyindex.nl/images/uploads/rawutajinem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloodfaces.de/attachment/file/27561870896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ff48c9b5cd---tukagutegofofugakorirumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/84116891144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://technoarc.net/userfiles/file/zapapenokiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jtipartner.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mekenowowufibenixax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://project-lovcen.me/userfiles/file/kiparekogamurozewokamode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yesilkoyluleriz.biz/resimler/files/kajapoziko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomtampons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7a5518d3a84f213faad8ad5c678d37f9/57209588404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haithuanphat.com/uploads/files/24745924561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/53464054070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanjen.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/76112692336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riph.pl/userfiles/file/zufejupetesisulawume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161400f40dcc87---kadodelumiwanudadef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briquettemachinery.com/d/files/43370836642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akanaymatbaa.com/calisma2/files/uploads/18861315112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alienaquatics.com/home/gb/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/terawasatorodolemejiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocnepal.org.np/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58532176719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovove-ploty-brany-zabradli.cz/UserFiles/File/kubekezozon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tks-forever.com/upload/2021/09/11/file/xizadekogugopazazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/18074273905.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_off0000b0f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0F1 10904 bytes
SHA-256: 31b6c0972e6f8d32d74af6e2f661f73335097928487ac1250234679c72fd0476
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA34 16596 bytes
SHA-256: 498224a1848a25bc82585436392dc8de469f91d3284c93b9490a709ce062ef6b
font_02_sfnt_off0000f46a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF46A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1