Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4985f7060e732a9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.6 KB Created: 2021-06-22 16:06:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d60ea8b156255bc0ff62e48599bc06f2 SHA-1: 9ef9dc7a8962fe9ac9eb11bcb121de5bfd65f441 SHA-256: 4985f7060e732a9ac1e94dc3f7118e97ee6a73a7670919a5d18830645f44882a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or serves malicious content. The document functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. The presence of external URIs and the overall structure strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tekken+3+combo+book+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://digemnd.com/UserFiles/file/xonak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chiangmai-clean.com/user_img/files/46786726534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsinc.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d01c5fb1ff309830fb72494bc81f7ebb/fodetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093afaa8cca4---92009185715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aluvascientific.com/UserFiles/file/4956468689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studio45.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aqsec7r2uvg4iaj18v505hm289/gajumukuluzas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/br7akfv7055g95hni6q50jdls0/zitifume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://costumeworld.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077891ff2081---lerol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://p-itos.net/admin/userfile/image/file/vixuzikujopat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2615f83427---sonibod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adff843df1d---tuxoxumofebeduwatexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b56b7638a0d---nogukumiras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3c7905cab5fb88388962a69d31b09890/93239665329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000feff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEFF 15600 bytes
SHA-256: ff622011cf3897c2643cf57ea67539a7a3111985b98144e3f044584f647afeb2
font_01_sfnt_off000131c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131C7 5104 bytes
SHA-256: 1f3806557da41bf5dc9c4699859af9c2e0afe28e61cec40fa7eea130cec444b3
font_02_sfnt_off0001431d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1431D 12804 bytes
SHA-256: 9e44771a3f8a5a7114196a972c2be43e614eaf48ccfd36360196df45632e6f7a