Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4498907a29726f46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 11:02:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0682bd15c5a31cbeca2c75a1055ccb1e SHA-1: 938aa9e6464bff67babe285a056f8a5ef98be19c SHA-256: 4498907a29726f465b69b57e44d8c9cda9bad4216312957551ba3bc041813213
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+editing+software+without+watermark+pc PDF link annotation
    • https://www.tctnanotech.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/848e86e06e192fa610e00e8a01a575bb/30335012426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://quasar.mago.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3943133552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckeditor.pamlskovnik.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vezilozosidominasutuwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://libyamonitor.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gesinawoposa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/birowevazixebax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neodev.space/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613121d0d671a---jejewolunonetodudada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thebookonpersonaltransformation.com/FCKeditor/file/26621775459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lingeriedediva.com/UploadFile/file/2021090503135973499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chistogood.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15566121118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alternativi.brtim.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/11505714406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rama-sp.com/rama/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/magobijubadametovozow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innersolutions-uk.com/file/sivonozotikumidolifenomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brava-ekb.ru/userfiles/file/regedefawiserixapovekozab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomaszfilipczak.pl/userfiles/file/fonoralejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ondamarinarest.com/upload/files/ragoguwuwisix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kinoimaging.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b0ee18f7e5---xovebuvozowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchelllawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/51632671884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mongolia-volkslift.com/uploads/files/89398615117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/bomepurezopuwosijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bowlingkillers.com/imgdb/files/kadekufedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pointvirgule.ca/upload/editor/file/41407284863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/38382787954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanart21.com/files/userfiles/file/91459319342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://khotelmarket.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_DAF5ECDEFC17E54F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000ee80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE80 18240 bytes
SHA-256: bafae3e6e00650b2891261de4c0927fb52e8149e7ce25ca053813a921b791e94
font_01_sfnt_off00011d0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D0A 11276 bytes
SHA-256: 236fb2735a2d06fb02b02a7b28a24039de0de9be80d08fd83c8c9b01033a7fdb
font_02_sfnt_off0001372e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1372E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1