Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4196ed5145446830…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 18:26:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 748548c15d8c66c755fdd7e7305a0160 SHA-1: f84eae830b41bfd9f51239ee495642e580f958f8 SHA-256: 4196ed5145446830829a7f0c9ec1e90add202005a27dfd21a2db1f2c9f433bf6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with multiple URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. Although no scripts were extracted, the structure and heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://kantankacreative.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/955ef8129d6fe7a9da62c2309633d98c/nolajedaveref.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://tysons-cafe.com/uploads/files/bufofadax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxethai38.com/upload/file/lugaluduweva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onlineadda.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fazonegazov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerseir.com/basefile/offerseircom/files/forimijazurugekoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayanchem.com/d/files/fuzutivogofidanofozupati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andyselfstorage.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7omrf7judj54p1vmd1m3bp4meg/83509250261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cottagegrad.ru/files/file/buwejexafuzunelabimalobot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210603012546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d43ca49a60---rezemebuzatefuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maviet.vn/upload/files/75717046466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f238ff3feb7---mukuwiloxomuvananovenes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aronabritcan.com/userfiles/file/14372441743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://martensmgt.com/business_school/uploads/file/waravisin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608130c46efb2---24317347907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scenekunstskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mapotid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hemeringen.de/ckeditor_ablage/userfiles/files/83097422528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carea2plus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/804eec42c82a0e018d3be9d23b24df14/domesubamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aaeedc418b9---fapoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.carnesvarejo.com.br/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/lumumibizosazawiwobeduwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polins.org/public/userfiles/file/82045003869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cdio.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/mikivarixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aaaexpressac.com/userfiles/file/zigetezevuzovek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fastcomputer.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a76ee50084e1cae01a4af9aeb2da9c85/71894921163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=chapter+1+standardized+test+practicePDF 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_off0000c339.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC339 16564 bytes
SHA-256: b0244f15ed8ef3774d65366bf2cc3384f8a9ce1429f38279065fc6be2bd58a34
font_01_sfnt_off0000edde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000105f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105F5 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 4e0bb6be432859d68239379565ab376dcd5fa638d56f389ece4d82f5e75b75ac