Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4143d5718ad35df9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-07-26 01:49:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 32ab898aa3fb867410dc735dfe66cd77 SHA-1: e46b545e3769e70fc0e7224cea1b8f8c39d4cd47 SHA-256: 4143d5718ad35df9546cac85a4df44f15f508688682a8b83b90a0744d4d49500
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://chiaranannini.com/userfiles/files/gijomududupavo.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://universalestetic.com/userfiles/file/6770841147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garmagostaran.com/Upload/file/29333820326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpuhub.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ukgbov30uj8j2n3dp3n3cb9nmr/bemozijixivunimisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/pumelizonemaxoxasadexor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transcendenceit.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2e0fb2eb9c8b7f8c71c0b561ddb940b1/46946844890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dobre-jaja.com/Upload/file/74398199931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danies.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99786172421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.studiolegalefusimorelli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b90cee4a869---39332575873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yousefmaktabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26114712956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d2bc6deb8e---85151016915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35b36f06f2ca9948d50aaadf14a5d1cc/20308833100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.euroservicemilano.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab5af099f9f---witobakubowajuxijoguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.elektrobetrieb-scholz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ef514c4fa3---vijekodexoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agatanorek.com/files/file/bapovifafaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupophi.es/uploads/files/65768559748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082dd76b609e---xavutimuxexemal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cukoyem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5imk0d1diurvuujssp1m7qrn6/74515515169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fde05734b14---kebujapulifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drahmetbostanci.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092cf7c26b25---sofiponipizudujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f7ac824b12---gapapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f85d55b90a0---26450951285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domgr11.ru/uploads/files/90563359110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=ford+fiesta+haynes+manual+2013-17PDF 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_off0000c6f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6F3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000df0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF0A 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 6165aab2fa4a850abfdf1565d0e8d5c244ffc88b7f23e519caa0c1c3ac08582e
font_02_sfnt_off0000f9cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9CD 16648 bytes
SHA-256: a50c7d426e84d02050062fbe10a7f423e8bcdab599d93051a3c32aa3613bab9b