Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4676ba2a10377aec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-08-22 06:03:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 71ec370c0000a04b69a5b1585f137186 SHA-1: c65ca0c64552e711e03cb59af5318dd9074d1a8a SHA-256: 4676ba2a10377aec787dba5dad5eed26fcd82d8d9f7f1ff5dcf8cbd153dbd12f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+install+call+of+duty+mobile+garena+on+gameloop PDF link annotation
    • http://richmore.kr/uploadfile/fckeditor/file/dimodinaninunabirabamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608274cdb341a---devufobedonuban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.formwork.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ag7fgarngptago39ds61gfvtp/ziviwuguxexepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqs-group.it/userfiles/files/renurebegeru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hospedeagora.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v9k1oj6hmb1vf87m3953far2d4/12005594985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecobox.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ee9cdl0qa4nockorrd3s77ptbr/nemonijerenofegupapoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alyansdugunsalonu.com/userfiles/files/84729501574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regenerativetherapyforpain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e1315a8f9b22586d1a0db7559229ad2/40179945698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amctop.com/board_data/editor_img/file/202105272106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.akilciilacdernegi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vurajujuzewusiwemelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gayaarchi.com/userfiles/file/20210710195229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vinaaquachem.com/uploads/files/zudin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a1s2carjksa8t9lotil1pbr390/runopipode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160726b413bbc9---vutoparixef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gshosnab.ru/userfiles/file/bofadapatepugidam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://magiccat.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92453675376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cabf85c734---76261501233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gorisum.net/fckeditor/upload_file/file/42236512256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/12106298056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://infiniteprospects.com/FCKeditor/file/58706861067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct8ml6mwue.tw/uploads/files/kofegan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namlongadc.com/uploads/news/files/xatejageponukaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aire-limpio.com/img/editor/file/33361960325.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_off0000e672.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE672 16992 bytes
SHA-256: 5104cf0598a83039d89c877a2974f0470643d7f3a0b143b5a4b9aaf328515170
font_01_sfnt_off00011314.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11314 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012b2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B2B 11396 bytes
SHA-256: 4f23dc4a43d2cb5350ea02edc5658ce435cda72b23975a69f769d3401530f0b9