Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f738c41522140ce6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-09-26 16:59:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6d0bd84d5122e1b3e1e6cc791bdd11ae SHA-1: 8602d3e54373e833cc478b4dc87a0ab675ea64f0 SHA-256: f738c41522140ce64bd72b57f71fea0228ef5023944276db1660ad76b65f96c3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious or phishing websites. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm on disposable hosting and points to compromised CMS upload storage. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jurassic+park+builder+download+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://himalmanpower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79996858611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.socfertenviron.org/cmsfile/contentfiles/81554504480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.startservis.sk/novy/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41211043410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myarchitect.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lobidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-tta.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/fulabebaligedawusulexobap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doggystylzgrooming.com/admin/photos/file/53291357876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-pro.com/userfiles/files/39613452460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mesotects.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161412cf998549---potifetaduripasasetiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uralcomservis.ru/crn_fls/crn_files/28667275255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arenda-v-novosibirske.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gojutedipakevewozuvekod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nomorecpapmachine.com/userfiles/files/73822253267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitpuertorico.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusenaviwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/32702687274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/646cca5d5a4ce1649bda1ec639992d87/tidid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bamfieldrental.com/userfiles/file/57780246926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netinflux.net/userfiles/file/muxulinoxubuvigavopafax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syarmarka.ru/userfiles/files/wedemepixawokufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmaciafici.com/userfiles/files/jusonujomif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spitalmoldovanoua.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/matinudogukakafazanefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chuanghuilaw.com/filespath/files/20210920055146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fa-vietnam.com/webroot/img/files/gisunuvesawizotibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://take114.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210913_852C93B4392803F7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leylasuren.com/images/userfiles/imagefile/vomitezoluxixebotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designsdubaiukfashion.com/userfiles/file/79916904455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eraeubr225bkfb8nqhoe67ca46/tunuzetapufelituv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://icltindia.in/userfiles/file/5171252656.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_off0000b228.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB228 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA3F 10984 bytes
SHA-256: b9b12eb43c5b967eca573e619be74b0f0d310ec786bfb8fe8c7eb8fad5fe7c9b
font_02_sfnt_off0000e385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE385 15412 bytes
SHA-256: db60a71c820aeb0955d19dec0eb50477f053fbc8c964cd7e80e8242758a78c01