Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4950d56e8a00f0a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.2 KB Created: 2021-08-17 11:32:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 6ba3dd41d2b385bb285fcd4b20db77b4 SHA-1: 144fcd3fdbb8ceeec0885698d076389f2d9f8108 SHA-256: 4950d56e8a00f0a8accb094b1d5bbd6f0657e11e2d8ca0cd6e20bb6b7655d5f4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress installations or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing or malware distribution campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9780

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=does+the+korean+alphabet+have+an+order PDF link annotation
    • https://yastudio.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cbf2ad0edc3801fcd1956ccd5879b11/96587290440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbar.com/upload/files/52685961182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a71357d099---gaxiwudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.colegiodesafio.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079b357850b2---futuwoziso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plumcourse.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c4a5dc875f1b91ee3c65c8cb16d76cbc/28678141647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160941491881c4---ravutogedovudixibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjcopy.com/upload/files/77729399460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/32747206069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9ba2bf00c3---suvaxososa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tecnicadovolante.com/images/file/viwafavebofugajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h2n8c6imr42n4gdir830g9d79f/1200157685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imssp.by/data/images/fxeditor/file/42454273486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608121fe13e72---38184936324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apluskleaning.com/admin/images/file/zenularimewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suachuadienlanhhoaphat.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/5787389028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bce4417266b723504e2f6494fbfb8cf3/41488364312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607166254e99d---61248321351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160764537937ed---matafenalowulerezat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandinhr.eu/images/user/file/zilonuvej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viquadro.com/userfiles/files/25843493599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/zijepuvipesoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maxitelt.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c09ffe9a11c---85086343581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skup.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa17385d65f---36623656681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luatsubienhoa.com/upload/ck/files/3253088741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/68539733848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centralcogtc.com/uploads/file/83344048706.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d932.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD932 17368 bytes
SHA-256: 2db302630cd99ea1840bfd053242d32b43634658eccf8225ea9608f45b11beb0
font_01_sfnt_off00010660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10660 4344 bytes
SHA-256: 86aea70143c77bf9adc6e235095ecf7926e5020b9b0249d9084aee328cd58073
font_02_sfnt_off0001161b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1161B 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 493b923b4a092324f001a43e9c8d97035b6e36dbfe02cb488d7e3f3540ffd924
font_03_sfnt_off00012e66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E66 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1