Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4669272cf6ef65a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.3 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:09:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 1b5c92c425edaef5542031e2e8995b8d SHA-1: 2655a9f52481b037f5c7baed0edc40ad944a0cf3 SHA-256: 4669272cf6ef65a12de8b4a71ca42eb786a6a374cef0fbca1067ec5860d2fe27
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

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://trustarshida.co/cache/fck_files/file/31680469831.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/56279271791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/gogunibegazuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autosaloncenter.com/uploads/file/89837582221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a59912dd6656e78aa1144fd0ddbe3522/ribedafaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--o39a91gvwm83kbsn.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210701_0205F57A5B279D0F.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075fc50a5ca4---21820509429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vikingmaterials.com/img/famevujiduzagiginixux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canoe.ro/Extras/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nawinivokekusigivake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rebranded.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bef66f2e5bb---66062779306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnadaoil.com/userfiles/file/97776420812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://africanhairbraidingsalon.com/userfiles/file/pofupavuronaweromojaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laihoawedding.com/app/webroot/upload/files/pugemajowifodora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pensiuneavlasin.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ictjpkiodbbhq3ima9jrsfrvdj/zizagudeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/wojibidulidatokel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asude.istanbul/ck_images/files/dovaposarekor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viprealestatebrokers.com/userfiles/files/98606308562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.supercarrentalsofmiami.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adf4fd1a337---38558374480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b27ade48768---sububiwekasafatemedutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangnampte.vn/quangbasanpham/app/webroot/upload/image/files/talos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ctict2k0cagshu7v8iek6afst5/nekixutumesuraker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitneyclan.com/clients/c/c7/c7afcfad87c307b096642b2e35f52d25/File/36367528087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elandtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210716_F9757D2B44C28C73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartvoicecom.com/userfiles/gibeputagiliti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=congenital+neurological+disorders+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_off0001362b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1362B 18492 bytes
SHA-256: fc1b14c29b36d17cce3cee0f86c13a732177b46742b6572c2a342a69055e6772
font_01_sfnt_off000165d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x165D4 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 90cb520a79861648942d19e894bc496e91b641281323768c370b44e138641d51
font_02_sfnt_off00017f21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17F21 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1