Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4eb1b9edbf6b11a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-22 17:44:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 941b3c38af056fbbd754eb62a55c7d36 SHA-1: 607337fdb0367e661e777d89a473e370d9cbc81d SHA-256: f4eb1b9edbf6b11a4c04ad5cfa46cfc83a090ad0dffd8a303929dad4e97bede0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to potentially compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to lure users to malicious content. ClamAV detected this file as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan', and ML classifiers also flagged it as malicious. The presence of multiple link farm heuristics further supports the phishing and potential malware distribution attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://aeternoplanning.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21183409964.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.singchai.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kolusojaxog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://homestayhoian.thamtuddt.com/uploads/image/files/51266841649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f2c8acf0d3252fa39575a7bdb73c42d1/37824183099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tristar-technology.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xakedejugixurubogasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-spec.ru/userfiles/file/ludilesovofumelopus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://website-design-company.in/dev3/damodar/ckfinder/core/connector/php/userfiles/files/16039822126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rh-h1tapi-turbo.com/contents/files/pavonoseviraj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kemmurad.com/webroot/img/files/sitapunukaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuanhebiotech.com/upload/files/visekatujoxemadiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f48ee2a6e---zivul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obraz-tlt.ru/userfiles/file/bupujowuxasuragutuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://incomingmakedonia.com/files/files/xatizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://galerie-louise.be/userfiles/files/47984906176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pactolous.hu/upload/file/najodokorufasej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kondicionery-dolgoprudny.ru/upload_picture/file/73661101144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rowanmkt.com/Uploads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dafigepipurovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verduciautodemolizioni.it/userfiles/file/mofewanavowodeviredaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wittnebel.dk/file/jidakovifasapemefidebeji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147429cc8323---zesuninobeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wijnhuis-vaessen.nl/site/data/ws/files/pisupevez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amagi.la/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161309549a65b5---gujovavadawakuvefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aiqbaoc8ai0p9ra0gactgs3mcg/32095040545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hstairan.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/30197505803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smartcirclegroup.com/userfiles/file/98431339930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murzilka.biz/images/uploads/file/36108584888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=natural+disasters+11th+edition+pdf+freePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000cd73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e585.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE585 17752 bytes
SHA-256: db06b3f91095e8169bcf3e73c4165e5e74b1e15877a9f2c5e90da61c13446e96
font_02_sfnt_off000113f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113F3 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 5ed00a145b238e7cd2fe50d5fa7ec189dc650682a20e5c8270f654f4ed991046