Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4127cfbe809ca81d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.1 KB Created: 2021-07-05 15:18:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 8bc26921c07177199c79c842053dd3c7 SHA-1: f2d1b4ccb5a8985a5ddfaf3c8785e2647c9a8d71 SHA-256: 4127cfbe809ca81ddd6710a0389583b4183e40d977e880a049d8d4bfd7b4f944
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+diary+3+movie+watch+online PDF link annotation
    • http://www.siscbolivia.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/fawukijegofebipuwer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okwmd.com/upload/fckeditor/file/tuzuvobafoxixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/lidukuputiripuluwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steklo-shik.ru/userfiles/file/somikomefofowivujakabunut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/mibox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allegroescrow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f6e353ff2a---poxefemesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alwaditrading.com/userfiles/files/68017440531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspaeng.com/files/image/files/vugenalijanesufabomumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/dejorotuxaredazasajipuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nguyenvanhuongloc.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/31020079627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvclassof1990.com/clients/8/8c/8ca0ba2c7a07c5cd1f21f9fc323c16c5/File/55866301407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amtusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9014b2dd20---66140507512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sad-azov.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b376f5c87a57ca68900356957f0d4a0d/49784032819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studio-rivetti.it/userfiles/files/gizeretoxirege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.victorian-manor.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094dfc518263---76953703974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aj-logistics.com/stock/userfiles/file/zorufosufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thanhlamresort.vn/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c691716b91---defunuvedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mabifitness.it/userfiles/files/solazebokalelavidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inncredel.com/uploads/50132790487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klcmekatronik.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xudorikasujilekivofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e3f1734cba---62760257004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093454e4c012---vivotuwibiwafeminawideja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightspec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9fb164e5d6b3d185d014c1eaa1f92945/lomogegamonofikagedemix.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_off0000f8c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8C9 16932 bytes
SHA-256: 9c759a8ca55858bcf6490dadf1a2b7e5bd2063a4ada1527a6be2e043bed8f333
font_01_sfnt_off000124c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124C0 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 50b17957884430ee4ab4929eee5caa125e0e129cef16eca518081721ae235376
font_02_sfnt_off00013dc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1