Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4400c220fd7f2886…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-06-30 03:46:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: e922e95f26c498faca3b7c67cffed4f8 SHA-1: 42bf9c620c041a4ba5da7fb13ee4b0b178a9978f SHA-256: 4400c220fd7f288683024b22aa9ff6c25d2a5bfcae438cc29b04f436eff11019
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with attempts to exploit users via malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=five+themes+of+geography+pdf
    • http://muzeumostrowiec.pl/obrazy/file/zigaragozokigenomupe.pdf
    • http://kazenergy.kz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6da8199eeb---raxesonod.pdf
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m1c9r5e7h2gj10h7a885uttjbi/lodupiterazelunijok.pdf
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160903e10336b6---lerazugovovet.pdf
    • http://bidmitt.com/img/files/file/44330037549.pdf
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d7daa23db---dabijopujesupilovigomev.pdf
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/84674402272.pdf
    • https://www.ppmcare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1lav1p9tjkc8qp2kbvmgnvaj9s/belope.pdf
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/18411227706.pdf
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d1f7220bf7---ladapoja.pdf
    • http://www.x454.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8mdmi86m7o0u8jqk8i8hbv91f5/78634875346.pdf
    • https://tehnol.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160780738461aa---kexoreduwa.pdf
    • http://www.akutrans.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87c86bac56---potevunut.pdf
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/468286631e38102536bfeda94029dda5/23964931895.pdf
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/42397722603.pdf
    • http://mirandatutoringcentre.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b62e31d749---gategareron.pdf
    • http://akpanlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/4919095596.pdf
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607638281e0ee---15060607596.pdf
    • https://lasvegasrebath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca53cd4f1612fd75fda5e5d589508c89/nodemuwapopaga.pdf
    • https://aldurra.ly/images-editeur/img/file/63554315526.pdf
    • https://aguiapromocional.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608409ec85104---guxukovepuwe.pdf
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2e33fbf802---donaloraxevemuw.pdf
    • http://africareview.in/userfiles/file/pudarafovarewamemi.pdf
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092f7804ded6---tebaxaje.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f6ef.bin
3616b0118372a3d406fcfb44feb9e95112bdeddd0d989c3e26992a87c88c2a97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6EF 10952 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001102c.bin
0b572bd4c83b01df90b6f8724461125c1a81c95c87fded302cb5cc181d4cf267
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1102C 17096 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00013c6d.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C6D 16792 bytes