Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4883e36f8592a1aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 09:46:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9a4cf9c8adfc933f90237dc8c57db031 SHA-1: 8decfe9245954e5669b348c72d722b67bfc94ed4 SHA-256: 4883e36f8592a1aa862904946f483dffcbd991b2e1b2f2cbcc2fc707a75945e6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and other disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links and the ClamAV detection strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://marcvandewiele.com/userfiles/file/mejipivulifiw.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lawngo.net/fckfiles/6736110657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoroman-service.ro/imagini_ws/roteta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fujieshubao.com/zk/UploadFile/file/2021091704430073499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multiseal.com.ph/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ec09436378---62382415152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakakmanis.com/contents/files/famametagarorofelek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140613fcf6fe---12274639061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpchkg.com/upload/image/file/zotugulamej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruxthai-guesthouse-chiangmai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fitisodikimuvujija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobmeetin.com/media/galleries/files/98548800703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136166d3dba1---jabezotasuwoxag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwlondonblvd.com/uploads/files/59500123366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tatsolarlight.com/uploads/files/tusipejusif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodegoncriollo.com/userfiles/file/vemavixugef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0vote.com/ckfinder/files/bobitegomubetobobolugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freeware-software-download.de/uploads/editor/file/55865614906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byecook.com/ckupload/files/85229433564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konferencii.org/web/uploads/assets/file/pujabawepafizepek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czpohledavky.cz/userfiles/files/nonivukaneke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geerhannutpourreussir.be/docs/upload/files/buwatilegumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://queensflower.nl/clientfiles/57901304501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23312118355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacoma.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146192f3cf8f---73637682547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tomekorea.com/userData/board/file/zodunolopokuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+send+a+message+later+on+androidPDF 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_off0000cd44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e55b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE55B 10668 bytes
SHA-256: b8204aff52585588a51542c6ac9d6db6eb3350368476b1b4e5a8e33551e924fa
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD8F 17336 bytes
SHA-256: b06ed7394c63aa1b9b490bd16ee8bddf2d5f30b3c4050fe6078eb89e32670395