Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4661b382c6ea3f15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.7 KB Created: 2021-06-26 05:29:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 50bfe04ffe812f28f637956786427645 SHA-1: 8b8915ab06301719163516f67917df439d500500 SHA-256: 4661b382c6ea3f153ee91b84e2f18154fce09d802107313cda2a2c089b0e3bd0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious PDF lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://vds-construct.pl/userfiles/file/baveluz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.moyekolodin.com/files/tosep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-eu.cz/upload/files/63451855044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuragen.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96003c960e---60061066776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahcxdq.com/uploads/file/100407436831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijneigenlift.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa16e94c29---sebezixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuepancong.com/contents//files/safimofidikinaturor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609484deb1f3f---62927567314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/lamavunomifudemad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5c1638ff59---fusude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ffb5c669ee---92200731126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alvasari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ada7fc6845---topojotutazogige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/88946457617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aserspa.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m95pts9knp1v84m5an0af2jccn/rirudimakodoniso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://123kozijnofferte.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nk0thegde4vd8dlgmloji304p5/bikevokofiniwupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inclinedigital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078a8bc9f581---24036699090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9ef33f3dad6812fcf61ed83429253260/28273719705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.explosivo.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc74b481fe6d93393a900fb90691b694/nupidukumejagutovinuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081a4aef115d---giwizewowux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/xivabulozabawov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costabravas.com/uploads/localidades/files/waviradamig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1sis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160be387c29c6c---masobuliziwawepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://storage-in-motion.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088a6aabae58---lisomenubenatixuganuwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=understanding+foreign+policy+decision+making+pdfPDF 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_off00015aa6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AA6 11176 bytes
SHA-256: 6614a7817ae5856e33421614a96ac3545e4e887642fce2352b48b1cc7592daf4
font_01_sfnt_off00017493.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17493 16756 bytes
SHA-256: d86fbb1b264244784ddf3d24029ce07de51225a9d4ce93a1824f5deb642ef7e7
font_02_sfnt_off00019f94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19F94 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1