Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4737458b584b7424…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.7 KB Created: 2021-07-04 02:17:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 07ed73d7a0778a63599a861302e2af71 SHA-1: 43501260ee01864dd9f141376c64dff077ce2124 SHA-256: 4737458b584b742488addc1406d2890cdd2a45184fd074c9e04ffeae9626ab8e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to websites hosted on compromised CMS platforms and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature. The file's purpose is to lure users to external sites via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9926

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+fuse+king+frost PDF link annotation
    • https://proektasis.gr/admin/spaw2/uploads/files/7515444001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aartipalette.com/userfiles/file/libev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://premiumresourcing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba3348a3377---gibonizikexileri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabradli-znerezu.cz/userfiles/file/95265280764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfplus.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cd2d450d03f---66092848642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fatheragneliti.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8945486df8---digax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carstenrath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/037jk6ejv49debkmb392dreni0/saxeworojifofasuwor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ebc4f243fe6934550bb1b6096cd6eba/posexejiveralo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mavismanagement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59e5731c99---72788388171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071de386b28b---2501988490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://razdolle.by/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/la918skmc9gejjb3aak1u6llt4/25236118525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doubles301.jp/files/ckeditor/files/damimadosemol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pebyte.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g7bp0ocsgpn7ipslaglck24fhi/3586635973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerbreadvillage.org/clients/e/e3/e396b250b60561adcb946853f9f62e29/File/65660992599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cocochan.com.pk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dc432f6432d265ba370aa5c07b29c28/rabuvukesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://efnnma.org/files/file/ruwig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sowitech.vn/upload/files/subavaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a90f627e1bbe6482d310041151bafd64/telolaruvagazofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hndgyl.com/v15/Upload/file/20216271210451271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/57489866042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.coconutlodge.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c6a227a786---49758703734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://la-klamm.org/Files/files/89581670278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecbpolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/460d5e82c8135ffbfec9f4eff1e43e6e/jatudugufip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://estigotours.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31c607a5a4509b74d2e54b25e373adbc/rumumamo.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_off000138e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138E0 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 3c3a16503c03572f2b9d215307ed517acf1e4f915a24e7b07b72b43cbf2f3a56
font_01_sfnt_off0001659a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1659A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00017db1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17DB1 10448 bytes
SHA-256: 22c74c911b4b7b21fbb2dab83eb0cea78d6b474058b1dac855c7b3234027dec3