Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4981f9496aefd437…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 13:28:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 4fa249c20b0a73b344bdfcc8eb55b3c4 SHA-1: 2f30664a9b8c59f7630bbe8e0190c7e4122ffaa9 SHA-256: 4981f9496aefd43798629f12b7db195a6ef96a0dfef87dd5d5fb040f1529dde7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS upload directories. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, suggesting it's designed to hide its malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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 http://sk-uralstroy.ru/uploads/files/vusiganaseniwijolukamaxom.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160dce51f77208---wanadegelikuvow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calldidocta.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f652e8f88a3c913cda4a1000ec5d42fa/16172710731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8acb1c168---zozawinusulug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ontheedgeofnow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7ed35c01cf---lajamegujafisejaledi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/sisinakexidub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af3cee7f4e---xenivotugumusujevinepakus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hollyskauaicondo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e2c39715e8---fobaxidarezapobeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wypelnienia.kratex.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a64120c3f1090c0be1a80dfd14f34beb/rivelimipodin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelci.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77135415616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://big-blue-bus.com/pics/fotos/1/file/lujez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rebates.forex/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n8er4rdq0pfe6cjund3j1k0ss4/suminoxuzutuwawubuzazuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thesaddlebank.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dnd9ds83irr3e6mdqralumorl7/nowobidudokalarefin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okmarin.ru/userfiles/file/guxajoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viajesalaos.com/webroot/img/files/99114771827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/jajugob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocvirapuato.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b8c99f58236b0923a57cdabaddade04b/nixekizoraboxuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ki0r5u5qh1sfu1flc9nthlbtuu/fegelibadanesof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eddc116a48795120dd37e33a0e8e87ab/66892992592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ce78b9698---66183793806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panegovernance.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/file/38154582190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160700ead55499---70651019900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/15337959976.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.femregenx.co.za/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h9k9r3qmf4egm95c5ef6lcldb8/92771450759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=ford+manuals+for+ownersPDF 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_off0000f8d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000110ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110EA 17340 bytes
SHA-256: 5ed6c51c5407709e70c9e1b8977969350f0dce82afc56d8ad1471d30963ed498
font_02_sfnt_off00013e6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E6A 10488 bytes
SHA-256: e60c23770a2936d20535f03641d5766ce639cd3aef1040fa9e2762c2fa8ac13f