Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4163e1b47f8ea49b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 14:05:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d682c7a6f24c02350f3dadc1f0b0a568 SHA-1: c3aea27e8fd51e494d7adc8ac4174ec37fc1eb6a SHA-256: 4163e1b47f8ea49bdf6075e03542698b23d61a15d89b1c08549236c8341dd42e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated high maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the links and the detection suggest it's designed to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nopfvvb5c2du9h428gfriomtc0/91696501828.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://shacklefordlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/29054669164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://osiindia.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wepupijadoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aostavet.it/userfiles/files/64831356993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrspk.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sunejotipuzerupomiwitafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livbiopharma.com/userfiles/file/pukitexekuwubatov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xuantruongtech.com/images/ckeditor/files/kejifidefafexigij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yumasri.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nofopikulejowazanidev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlevel.pl/userfiles/file/lulofadobuzexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tcf.gov.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62708268438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hoalavender.net/upload/files/78438879643.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/tuzuxezigabage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vwb.mrv-educationservices.com/content_file/files/jekanijuzobijerat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrichmond.com/uploads/files/99006515542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmmotor.com/files/userfiles/file/84173292835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagumul.com/file_upload/spaw_upload/file/20210917123026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blagoustroystvo24.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81905899796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613adf69e1932---lisunowed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwrosedale.com/uploads/files/favujedokode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aytekinpolatel.com/image/files/79302533069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161310721c1f7b---wikirexokulopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vas-vill.hu/userfiles/file/14070579033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----otbbfbbknchz.xn--p1ai/sadm_files/62648590060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=android+emulator+ip+address+of+hostPDF 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_off0000c11f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC11F 16164 bytes
SHA-256: 001321b1d5705ed33bdfcd179de97319837799c932a4bc1c950aa46b624a3b3a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA86 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 9d9b351a17e75365bfdb538416fe9cab6236512b07862a806f6f45a836b9429e
font_02_sfnt_off00010361.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10361 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1