Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b4508b55a449351…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:28:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 669e3c37aaf8e9b948809e6947805452 SHA-1: b49b9bf6ba631b8668401396dfc88977a53ab18a SHA-256: 4b4508b55a4493512064092f193407526700547632bf378b246272eebbe5f3c0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed for malicious redirection. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=top+3+warzone+players PDF link annotation
    • https://oriontradecom.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86760394834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f1a559dea5a75610472ca4de75f02dd/3971040673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tt-ural.su/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fosugogezufonufij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kovrdom.ru/sites/all/sites/default/files/file/7103002607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://codienlanhminhquang.com/upload/files/88896808232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lionsmarsala.it/userfiles/files/70343379877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yocarbroker.com/upload/ckfinder/files/mufinuluduxare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://htlexpress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tuzodilatakasosok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicabg.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/lisewusanedezejud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaphatmed.com/upload/file/16875311064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fthyhs.com/resource/docContentImg/file/2021-09-02/5edba623d89b17f12bfafd259afe415b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wjvanderheidedienstverlening.nl/uploads/file/talan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.webtony.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613aeb807f528---purofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/999b05b1b4de7b9501f8aff7c688f5f9/xanopeledotupinaloxawoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adurucui.com/ckfinder/files/soripijoxinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://listapp.in/ci/userfiles/files/91454306774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://un7un9b3rl1pa7-99.com/contents/files/posidisapeluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bio86.net/userfiles/fichiers/kuwizadikebenon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaterskolen-efteruddannelsen.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29421828204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jungam21.com/upfiles/file/1631886240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lavalnerina.it/userfiles/file/rafabugaxajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/jebadufavarodus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsushibrea.com/uploads/files/88487208352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://premiumvipbusiness.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/890ac70949c417f628bbdf0089190c55/lupiwifudud.pdfIn 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://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_off0000b5fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5FE 10448 bytes
SHA-256: ec073ec422fcbec3e89fd6c130db1396d2ad383c14f90a7f1a8a00bf10cc224e
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDFC 16836 bytes
SHA-256: fbd2a1e32794e459fa9d1bd6ff16da75fc8b0a4db902bbb2679e5283b80cdb1a
font_02_sfnt_off0000f895.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF895 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1