Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4ecf6fbe8f6a870…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-17 11:04:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: aac6d45c6fcc8a4d68d87ad85a64c7a5 SHA-1: 03e473212036cbcf098996fe6f65a594f19f346b SHA-256: f4ecf6fbe8f6a87047309c572217586255eaf622fd99ca506c9d817200c1f21a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs that point to compromised websites and disposable hosting, characteristic of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters suggests an attempt to track user engagement with these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://cructi.ru/uplcv?utm_term=new+i+moba+injector+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://evola.it/userfiles/files/vepesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metisentry.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xejatozerizegemolagexopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiumevivo.it/userfiles/files/24228910838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.prakashirrigation.com/uploads/fck/files/66939384119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2winit.com/Files/files/garonemexixigivokew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maroba-zirndorf.de/file/39630997557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://best-turbos.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a256786828b66c2c31076564d0d5e1f6/buwopowekulozapowezunan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e968ee48d8---bexirikawupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designclarf.it/file/dinavodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badoza.net/userfiles/file/tojogagawafuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bastola.org/userfiles/file/vebedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://santa.my/images/users/00000000/files/rokomugigerivubolokaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrkanuch.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/dokubazamelewovatamegeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trieuduong.com/images/Download/95390347087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ladangmimpi.com/contents/files/40983388080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135683cd9623---kitababijojuxanisonoribox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.com/upload/68563111987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hig-hegmann.de/userfiles/file/65040041060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamorenj.com/userfiles/files/28914718929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oa30us.com/userfiles/file/lipogog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woodlander.sk/grafika/file/tetatubolakox.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_off0000cf66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e778.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE778 16636 bytes
SHA-256: fec868e5cc619b8ca1e31f419366ccd3deeb945543f025c09cf366b845c861f6
font_02_sfnt_off000112ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112AE 10744 bytes
SHA-256: 605827ec854382d3ccd783fbc02184abbe325e7fc691189c40363293aa2c6b84