Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4751205e206fc808…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.5 KB Created: 2021-06-30 11:12:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: aa7f9117461d5c3a2744d00a80a120be SHA-1: b840a95532110048b5033ba8ca445411373df7de SHA-256: 4751205e206fc80844f780258ea19f63cf2262cc88af6fbb05e20099ce39d71e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, likely to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of PDF_URI and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

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 https://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=commodity+chain+human+geography PDF link annotation
    • http://bioident.pl/photos_fck/file/56337855773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10dc22ff7568dcb57aef54481b53b17b/85922694020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c734d6b776---22647904054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daaeportrett.no/upload/file/5644908353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parklanehotel.asia/userfiles/file/fewonuragiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/wuseduxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7da58d5l3r9u89ih1cqft5d0j7/46541237163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tafgambiatours.com/userfiles/file/83526225437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diagonal.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607402a42a4bc---wikoxonevedik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.molinoag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f87f11035e---butazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.propertyadvisersaustralia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c228b6f7dd2f365b024793889ad917b3/zomubudiseboba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rolstoellift.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b87b4e420ac---senibaduxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b848ce72581---32595813580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078453de5020---minilogodalikop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/99619407767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f27603204a099cecfdb12b2fc6e2046a/75440861875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lifo-sea.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86015864444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jjmcp.jp/userfiles/Image/file/mivulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1s6nujhummhtejdteuco93esv5/95182573395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changdahk.com/upload/46779564192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banhangcongnghe.com/upload/FCK/file/dopifuvafotawofavelasegoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiaviews.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/95iig7bjg75hdk3ts1muf5i690/dovizulesuke.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_off0000f53a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF53A 16980 bytes
SHA-256: 88a995d29933ab2dfc9b0076be065541491675c572fbacde4399b7d7bbefd305
font_01_sfnt_off000121a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A6 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 41ded0a18e60aed96a1b69345fb2c6dbe6e389eab34f1bcf57d2470c2e3f911d
font_02_sfnt_off00013ad5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AD5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1