Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f771b6088364e48c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2021-09-14 11:57:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 245ea592516e8ce5528a3d80a4ce9819 SHA-1: 841677dd3c8ae7f85988fc9fb40e70e4d7c92d24 SHA-256: f771b6088364e48c22ccf64cd3185f11805fb187dada1109a5d2b09f788ea270
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings point towards techniques used to deliver malicious content or redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+hacking+tools+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://icmasistemas.com/userfiles/files/dofubovunewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddshower.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41111781391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gestioniarmatoriali.it/25815573986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spzpoz-zdunskawola.pl/upload/file/lojakizabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tort-art.ru/userfiles/file/joleniluvevezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dentalclinicbangalore.com/uploads/munetetujojevuwaloxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tornyanggrace.com/upload/file/limofuxavozibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timnhanhonline.com/upload/files/tofudoguvadidusirixim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromamahabaleshwar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59495322910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aktien-analyse.de/images/File/dexusarenab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://merklink.nl/site/data/ws/files/rufivitot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caphegiabao.com/upload/fck/file/9100314994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webbyshoe.com/fckeditor/userfiles/file/ragiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613356dbd8290---77102089040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iranjobex.com/cache/fck_files/file/xirivalif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hejia-ele.net/upload/jugofote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unitedcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be0bfacedf---zekadebadamikusivobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://physio-praxismitte.de/userfiles/lejunanewevuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://capital96.com/userfiles/file/wubazumusegodokok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freemansphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f4c1a8d77c---9032202420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duel.pl/userfiles/file/96215298880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vit-physio.de/file/55371311271.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_off0000d944.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD944 10732 bytes
SHA-256: ae0ceb18f96553995acb85765ca3eeebeb0412c54a01416eb5833c43e7d5f863
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000109bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109BC 17944 bytes
SHA-256: f319741addfdffd09698bee2f799643a022c89ee8750ee6741556cca887616dd