Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4156699d3ca2a31d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-07-02 18:09:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: c83d726dbaac12e6af0a33608c564a3f SHA-1: 868ad17a5c51571a17a8815a6ca5f6ad61605e84 SHA-256: 4156699d3ca2a31dd7b842dc3a1eb27bdac0e7e9e48fa1cb702c751b44aeaa0c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farms hosted on compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or SEO manipulation attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c75038e2388---301719453.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b154d611596---21728033385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gift-edu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7474d88ffd168a9a7141f5728ba9dc8d/labawoxurilovevolajopumoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lenoir-elec.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/i706v3coeh4liqsvohvt97a5gc/mawogifezak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-fasteners.eu/media/file/ponugugaxarisipodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaszemin.com/files/kifajabafatimelikiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holderit.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0093064041---xofaruxibemimemadowinuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duonglaohanoi.com/userfiles/file/jogaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c4ir.ae/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbbvceggkoukmffn64sb41prc6/69808607299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanseniors.ca/userfiles/file/rimawigodupepujujagomipej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b22b5125169---tases.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trlgpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jasunovagaved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldcoil.com/uploadfiles/files/85434181512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biplano.eu/userfiles/files/21216549244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firengo.com/userfiles/files/42467259702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c62aba65e28---12490371572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cungcapluonech.com/upload/files/73973153574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.audifonosdoshoydos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b16f9ee2320---22865785378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/48645815266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://euro-ex.com/77462048867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/jisotataledajowukagalur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maidintown.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/530f087681a4f0f4e6a2bc7a0a93e900/kagiwatonanomot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grahampropertytax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d469ae39651cd7d586d1f5f76fbd1e87/80982221554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cba32189ff---gifiwisujededul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=what+is+the+pattern+in+mathPDF 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_off0000e028.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE028 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f83f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF83F 10344 bytes
SHA-256: ec4ab9988ff16ce1b220f168eb17f495de7c26ef13f0aee5551b78a8f09ef1ac
font_02_sfnt_off00010f69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F69 16848 bytes
SHA-256: c4b1d4aff6ef81126b448e670a771ccd2424675aee1ce2a6d0ad01468aeb615e