Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4790500b05752a79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

189.4 KB Created: 2021-10-05 16:35:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: c40aa49267a495c0596e77eebb8d801f SHA-1: 3393b63bc412570558a61fb6f61bff342fc4e8fa SHA-256: 4790500b05752a79eac4fb00e85b820451211129fac56a32623232b16fe0869d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The document contains a link farm pointing to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's designed to distribute further malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it acts as a lure, potentially leading to phishing or malware download sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9963

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://lifeteacher.tw/uploads/files/202109040113067961.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161385f6ced914---puramalovaluzapupitidet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cobaltinc.org/userfiles/file/pixijumum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yukkumpulgroup1.com/contents/files/34260492219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/15363697785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webinaris.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/nunotekisojune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2ruoteexpo.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/numawugapogepujosogape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinajessie.com/seadata/data/uploads/img/file/163279251734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modern-pro.ru/files/file/ladanokofelafonavafojij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613190ed5d4c7---walujopage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lisoladupewix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambiance-cinema.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9728a20cc02af4fa42ea2d457db6e612/91265276570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hyundainhapkhau.vn/upload/files/daxedajitunurabute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jobsandhi.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/50775220612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shlawllc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/bakik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmagame.com/userfiles/file/bofiwanavukowexugif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://starwindows.ie/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muvusegatogeluwuruvopasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dpnovelty.com/upload/files/77718748789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cathugo-yachts.de/res/wysiwyg/file/49301205734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aksaaydinlatma.com/img/editor/image/file/pasijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolinterier.sk/upload/files/vinetutelomubukabeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/lipebabexaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctners.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91896690804.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cafepiolho.com/uploads/assets/tanowixiwamonex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/momekinojelodixugajeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=ultracite+armour+fallout+76PDF 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_off00027eef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x27EEF 21792 bytes
SHA-256: 13d6781370fd0f0a1628a89cfe24eb1d22f0d9037973c32b63d201845b36a47e
font_01_sfnt_off0002b70a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2B70A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0002cf21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2CF21 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 5452b0931380a44def740ae556c1404967969b89aa9c048e8d6aa25815682d42