Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4776b1ad37d392bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.8 KB Created: 2021-07-20 07:48:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 3cae447020e071aaf333afc2d9bf3d83 SHA-1: 5f2f3b261dc8ac96e16356d6172f87e5776bf412 SHA-256: 4776b1ad37d392bbb5b5fd5533067075c3850e52ee68e7632975ba3293b19a68
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://rlmahtani.com/userfiles/files/67048601535.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://smoothnomad.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j45jhlvt8fvt5tuab2ajj43gb7/11458093496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a724fe6d9c2---pidadedasiruguti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6323df5842a2d6b78e8635762c0ca60/venelasafibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082824e2e174---zevuveguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://didacostruzioni.it/userfiles/file/41065000942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cravaluos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51277642751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refundsrefunds.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f2503161a2---lebufumurot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acornschoolcharleston.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1247a304b49a4230d859301dea3b3176/96938385671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gsccn.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c38c12379f0---sabinulozegibakadomem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090efe7bbfc6---58618194248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twr1115.net/files/fckeditor/file/kowox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/teriviwerivuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://md-servicios.com/userfiles/file/5603723872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a4580808516---64295792348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mastera-mix.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/moxavalipolux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiszelyugyvediiroda.hu/docs/file/lufafukoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmic-kino.ru/sadm_files/50025019810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ktmcollege.org/public_html/userfiles/file/legiposebop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsclinic.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/sorixujow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d061d4ec4---sawamegitepodebixuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanna-flyingclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58404579091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cogersquest.com/clients/f/f6/f6194b381802d71b6842d6160e8859b1/File/sinaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=opposite+of+hindrancePDF 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_off0000f047.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF047 18360 bytes
SHA-256: 5478b59f448acf4b623ea37f32bc0bb5132c84ff5d7fdfcbf66e26243b6be365
font_01_sfnt_off00011ff9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013810.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13810 10696 bytes
SHA-256: cc884d24c81c343948dd18956d4e061ee7598e7df7894e650d916d76fa329cd5