Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ac466c00ed947ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.0 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:35:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: ba330e2b8b0151ee7d5d5f8ad95f618d SHA-1: 43097363c46808b176b537ab41df5015e37a95c5 SHA-256: 4ac466c00ed947ac57786ddfa6f4ef64cd5bc5fe60dff8573bf5812497bbea65
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these links. The presence of multiple external URI heuristics further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9827

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://ageddfjtj.pretty-match.com/upload/files/81946743314.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://bawwabatrizq.com/userfiles/file/83596567794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jakebenmd.com/clients/0/0e/0eef9d569b11303d075d19626cc6f958/File/77459518175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rpdev.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/katepukaxereligipen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--e1aaafipco3bk8gra3b.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/file/71095982615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tidaksusah.com/contents//files/dilogenanulikatitigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae63cf2418b---33065085712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://austarpharma.com/upload/files/89728972136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsbulletsandbrass.com/userfiles/files/8706785213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridgefieldpark1967.com/clients/3/39/39eebdc8797e30ee23d4fd57d071fd44/File/5584247613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090203703235---13100860813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e287891f5---gamixoweti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bulgariapools.com/contents/files/70817217516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://epilia.com/upload/FCKEditorfile/86906610098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/nevanopivatafov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.themixchange.com/userfiles/files/wivolizunogunevapipofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a782aad0988---72995474813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tamlaproject.com/userData/board/file/jasuxapawukifajosin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nakajima-ya.com/upload/save_image/files/51414474126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aihr-iadh.org/uploads/FCK_files/file/95585023898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amezdigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98c8460e51a0d764fc4a26b255cd8fc1/vubexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenturtleproductions.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7716edce125a802ca561c5ae79205dd/43229656563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bracyfamilyreunion.com/clients/c/c2/c2db1a97f769835965582c74015c7782/File/kukuxofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2itsolutions.com/chop/multimedia/userfiles/file/26949470906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ikedatosou.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9c8fe144d5---63731681275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vigo.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1d0c770fd6---tezorivupolegetejamiwax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotaquangninh.org/data/dulieu/files/24371593450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=compensation+management+pdf+bharathiar+universityPDF 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_off0000c2a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2A5 11348 bytes
SHA-256: c520214480608f6f59b83568949a8856c8ff6c5fb63c37f48c703b0bf20d9888
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCD0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4E2 17892 bytes
SHA-256: 1dda2927afc2d1f029e59cd5229b1ad35f6a38eda86ca3415be5ea55e78e6e8d

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