Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4671f0093fe59b54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-09-05 05:21:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 87722aed2d9871b7858cdcc894b7e4ae SHA-1: 73aafeba5ef440119524d2bb177198a0c68067dd SHA-256: 4671f0093fe59b54e1eafe140b6e2065f49f4da2134fa2652cd1271783df44a7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm hosted on compromised or disposable domains, designed to redirect users to other malicious PDFs or potentially malware. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest this PDF is part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://skikk.be/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/gasozomewiwesosewamuzodo.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://betenagro.com/sites/default/files/file/9694860782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071cbeb55605---derufudebidixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expeditions-travel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607da89f001bf---nokuwitoxobise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchirierielicopter.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094905a54eb1---48846240702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spearsyounglegacy.com/clients/b/b2/b2c23f164518415ec8f3c1c8d0af542d/File/jozulimuzizaxipuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160840535e2547---deziwugolekutalagonuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af964eb640b02837ffa174fb50e9c701/92572087350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://formpart.com/upload/ckfinder/files/vubemixaxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poultech.net/d/files/xidewipanitogaped.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-green-hope.com/uploads/files/5014576623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massageindex.nl/images/uploads/54228492144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarmisir.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/26nc8tit13reijljs1e6oob052/kunop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://csodamalom.hu/files/files/48184388664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getsolarny.com/userfiles/file/bojeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zpkprzemysl.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5880245956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alpanelektrik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/rotuxibetadasafazebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.acptechnologies.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e1bda8d7ab---85418636194.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bioaec.com/userfiles/files/tisisonetevizumiligowux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mvsexpo.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zuxefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puppometalli.eu/file/40931287378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ubytovani-budejovice.cz/picture/vtextu/file/69454761348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d97bacaa05a---zazigutotejexaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotstamping.pl/files/file/85015267444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=simile+and+metaphor+worksheet+9th+gradePDF 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_off0000c7f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC7F5 16968 bytes
SHA-256: 279ea31a5c7920ec8092b7066a99b522820015ead933cb704bf8830500f10509
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010bfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BFA 11260 bytes
SHA-256: ddcde285a932ec324e53b3479ecc88d203018af09effedfca8e217832cf39b86