Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4717096e0bb84c0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 12:50:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 9ab9fc04b9d9cb2adfb050c94be43f4b SHA-1: ec83b0a645f02eac392ba8b6b78245d86aa64c54 SHA-256: 4717096e0bb84c0a4a17890d4027f69dd7c13262a915fe7a697c10f07b49cda6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

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 https://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gadi+wala+game+2 PDF link annotation
    • http://yuhao-tech.com/userfiles/file/sosagalojewinul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limberhurstgallery.com/imageuploads/file/karukixesono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://powerliteaac.com/userfiles/file/jivebutolepodatut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://babijie.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-12/20210912095650122597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermovi.com/userfiles/files/nepavafopapapatojunuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aiaato.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_C06B5A1DF3C8C2AA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f8922dd0e7---33679655444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aalzkj.love-mrt.com/upload/files/97138284743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sportsbettingconsultants.net/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/44189979594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tamtam.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/11dc3ee80fa7fae1612bf47ff8e1ef2c/98829774326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nasikampung.info/contents/files/7766822792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7556528a577491b925bb8b1c8cdbc9e3/zaxirubeludupidavoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drironcat.com/images/file/kexawuzetoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cjsc.se/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67518613954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ff8d4a31d1591688ce4eeca2de488db/sagefajefadubogizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemail.com/userfiles/file/1632039138kazasazimonatefutawamoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sg-callenberg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130111d87a28---62734122226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cobrawire.com/userfiles/files/dogurugimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellissi.org/userfiles/files/foname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zdravotechnika.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sazalevif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abbeytraining.net/userfiles/file/ravepukewimiwedoxinur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stoewebdesign.no/userfiles/file/16733447118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/63605694290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3aadd6c8d1ddfb971ec81db2c587e2ee/rapimagomibalexu.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_off0000c027.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC027 20416 bytes
SHA-256: d256df0a5957c13bf8a2029fd609d2d239ec16e21d1fd9a90bab84e9d8351ebe
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3E6 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 59f394688efa8e896aade2b0ea74e8f12f80fb686e334f89ebf8ea1f80d63313
font_02_sfnt_off00010ac7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1