Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b4cdf999353134b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 07:11:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 4c3fc39da1695970cc4cbebd059b6911 SHA-1: d8df51673ae20eaa695b3496c2ce7921b4e1e76d SHA-256: 4b4cdf999353134b7d8b159ee9b3ee9f66d4f712ef27c00a090a3b2372608e80
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV identified this as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, and the ML classifier assigned a high probability of maliciousness. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=trigonometry+proving+problems+with+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/zovisidotuxisufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1544-7419.net/upload/fckeditor/file/21262079206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jodhpurtravels.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/78965130388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lindopoint.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/399f71da2e8206adcf0eed7f19a8bd7f/95067255318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adams-gold.ru/archive/image/file/87835908454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacausedeslivres.com/userfiles/file/42510497400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gruaszarate.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bojobagikuvexopemegufel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://footstepfloor.com/upfiles/files/38542464608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/45385929275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1d01175ca8---50079660157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jumozuwutesuzutolexuxanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blackknowledge.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d7d375d4e5ec3569da31ee2420f51f41/funabegutidumafawitadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c2561052b9005272d9af99fd20aff484/68780995971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ogblfrontaliers.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2gviiai7ivkgm3n2jdbhk45flc/92501277947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fd-health.com/upload/ckeditor/files/39332192442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apisicul.com/userfiles/files/44497844710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bq9e3edlqacsmrf74l21c0sa89/85289810785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiramisu-o.com/yamituki-n/uploads/files/gezuradumogogekaxixijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://witnesstherealist.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/755c238477acebaf6372439d5d58b0b4/gomibimapelunewajusuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a3a3b40c7e---14350503224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jkphotocon.org/data/userfiles/files/pibefewafurafixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c8t8lp7ggo7vc8j93l7u31l11l/83445173325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atcotourismtravel.com/userfiles/file/wunevipuja.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_off0000f23a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF23A 18660 bytes
SHA-256: f9314403e1ec2f41e4cacb069d74bf9eca6c8fb1221ae34d194a82ffb1481758
font_01_sfnt_off000122c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x122C8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013adf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13ADF 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 3f4ddc47d20ff3ce73460d0358c0e0f38ea6cdbb6d6cb2ea9f7ddfa3c9d67f0d