Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ac61e8ad887a668…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:45:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ed6b183a1cc41c4c1a530a005455e3e9 SHA-1: cf53b3a8e393a33e9586076568b5c8927b0ab190 SHA-256: 4ac61e8ad887a668e4f3ba2fa82714a175b4b7bba742557a2ac5b353fbcd6cc7
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 WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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 http://drlalashow.com/php/billboard/uploads/file/wosupin.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jingluo.net/uploadfiles/files/88742182409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deitratech.com/userfiles/file/marafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd1855ce9a---nitefijoxezuwavaredota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalsocialwlefaresummit.com//app/webroot/uploads/ckuploads/files/86145908488.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rsentco.com/upload/file/pibajiletugokutebumel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgdivorcelawyers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1d82b7547c41ea8c2259b9ac3b057119/vuxilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da5165665a6---76131935079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d361d92bad---wodesaxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lbtfilm.com/uploads/files/83690596704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emilymillerlaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/56588735049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akbmodel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a32fd25079---6222815095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.village-gaulois.org/gestion/ckfinder/userfiles/files/35292286192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amazingindiaphotos.com/amazingindiaphotos//upload/fckimage/file/73665904802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boumqueur-edition.com/upload/fckeditor/file/84677304516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmeds.us/userfiles/file/16435119686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-url12shio-turbo.com/contents//files/gizaxivepi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/6851048606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://omomediacion.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/52d7f32c3a1a15c4de601b52a57c91bd/dobepiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/966eb70441fb328ed6220f1c7e31ed03/gobupunopomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dolphinegypt.net/userfiles/file/tolibijan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manusingh.org/scgtest/eec-new/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lurojore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovehikari.com/uploads/files/83876302790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160deea56650ef---28624227228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=the+meaning+of+wharfPDF 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_off0000dba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBA2 18012 bytes
SHA-256: 9388260e76ff535bd5baf56880273588f9de6bd7b127a0713f64689dd76a2734
font_01_sfnt_off000109a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109A0 10400 bytes
SHA-256: ad511b5b4d943a8d6d1bf8ff5f101aee7a26152dcd07aa949296807710261d27
font_02_sfnt_off00012101.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12101 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1