Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4acde208d664c371…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-08 00:52:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 6329ef7d6e7fe563c8d25b748815038a SHA-1: 7b43420b3d6ff6f81535d4317c5b143d4e58f81e SHA-256: 4acde208d664c371e8081697d177a6095cbf16a6fda7b0508f8de3b63f4edc83
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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://doellefjelde-mussemarked.dk/images/newsmail/file/kunum.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://rfcorporation.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0e4e44c5b11f911b4678f081d1fdc27/47665124461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promador.pl/userfiles/file/3385268135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/21539771115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giraffeng.net/infodaily/gen-ckfinder/userfiles/files/29584693629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sm.ac.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89076717667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mauspro.net/upload/files/94569619936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-arts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33344714831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easresidence.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/gezokomoxapijituvevofaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c013dc4d260be71a87636fff837183df/23938587379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.milestonesmn.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60546204389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/pisap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vbclighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e6f5364bfaef8eb5eed25f931441eac/32222782281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmei.lt/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86188679687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://short-story.ru/upload/file/lowamipuranewewelemik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmickino.ru/sadm_files/47299291021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-intelli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59817985693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609761af474c6---96238446519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://murielbellhomes.com/userfiles/files/ronefikil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carparts-fixture.com/file/file/mufoterokol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samngaimarble.com/html_upload/file/76693736313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palenice.net/obrazky_clanky/file/mijavatak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=functional+programming+in+scala+pdfPDF 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_off0000d39c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD39C 18088 bytes
SHA-256: 4d340f754d8be5ecb11a9677de5aa402ccef002f0476c5138da64a01843a18af
font_01_sfnt_off0001031b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1031B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011b32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B32 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 2fb0ceb58a9028eeaf5321f7ffd0099aeb63705c2152bfd64aa9ad6c800918ff