Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4639dddf15547f48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-29 09:13:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 45699fd8a173247ecacbf343a1c7c3ba SHA-1: a9f9564e9d8155145c303e8b2674be809a3a645b SHA-256: 4639dddf15547f4808b712a52b8ed35a75a9d3b0160ae354b3c95d6423c32ca7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware through these links. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the link farm nature and heuristic firings are sufficient for this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://ggmtc.net/userfiles/files/lujetawisez.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pappteam.hu/userfiles/file/97180125938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lee-trading.tw/archive/upload/files/42561004140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siphouse96.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ae69b118874cae910b8160dc0f869c9/7647702179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3kvrnt790itdp196o8kcjc4u51/jowiziwezekimujedura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yummyschool.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/dupira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e97c8ebbab7---41501526294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.prowallpanama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f54fa7b8fd8d968347445a16954f28d5/57983095391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spherule.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c52d578f171bb9ae124df1673b04446/badezejuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://erdenet.mn/userfiles/file/80153015995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuraniterbiye.com/resimler/files/zapaxobilenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9158ba756---76470992323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c1e24100f---diburufewerakow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pestresolution.pt/site/upload/file/dewininuvesuzawuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://papersacksfactory.ae/images/bulk_images/files/46024161950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anzmrrn.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c39ad17bd5e---dewab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/risetorikafilirogemamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brunoamaranti.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s482h3vtl76dji3r12fai3b2i5/35472429590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-reutov.ru/upload_picture/file/kojuwavalafujawaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mls.lighting/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/64288c3727c7fffea6ff87029616755f/kuvebotepusirebuvadumiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://summit-christian-academy.com/scauserfiles/files/75710658056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aykutemlak.com/upload/ckfinder/files/nejoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=what+are+the+three+types+of+infinitives+in+spanishPDF 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_off0000eddb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDDB 17556 bytes
SHA-256: 2fe81b8b00b26e567ee381da8b11f6d7fbf2ef091d559b3153c954c63d960327
font_01_sfnt_off00011a77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A77 10584 bytes
SHA-256: a79b94e0a247bab8423319a71267a4da816bb965aeabe864f86bbf9b32dc8774
font_02_sfnt_off000132aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132AA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1