Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c02aa54a19234d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 12:05:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 368a1916f0d292cb632db2b2123ad57a SHA-1: e7b6ddf5ae2f08bc1476da01c9861d9f7113fb22 SHA-256: 4c02aa54a19234d7e9d582cde05ac2bcb7b208dd3309fedc5655c1ffbbcf0171
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs pointing to compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a malicious intent to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://www.iciparis.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sanaxol.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://travelsi.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6902454193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clarklawtexas.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/74528367894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bagstyle.uz/images/file/gujadesitufan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keramann.ru/uploads/files/12496990152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rhvic372630ocjpdu634ma27p1/74358864585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoi.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/jitaworutopeverupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wroclawmodelshow.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27746515331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stkvn.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aed914856e8ea60b31c0e875077a11e/guwiwogibemupinovige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acpiindia.com/userfiles/file/waxujitafisanigopiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rigdrilling.org/userfiles/file/zagetekopivokorika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/45834933677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://888spirits.com/userfiles/file/55538516711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yasairamenbar.com/uploads/files/87486423745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tyko.pl/userfiles/file/xizewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smgbid.com/ckfinder_userfiles/files/55613279830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erfolgsapp.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614146fdb8659---39111297186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ip-kamera-rendszer.nuttydog.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84606390222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jumpinfit.it/userfiles/files/67108313294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aceitunasdelguadalhorce.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97308137661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pvesc.vn/uploaded/file/3800643902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sksound.com/userfiles/file/2275542552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdbailbonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31c93242ab930b186e1e4e95495b1770/robatazasakuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://on-call-anatomist.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/suwewuxeroserurilati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/14286460990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=my+hero+academia+heroes+rising+endingPDF 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_off0000ed78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED78 10780 bytes
SHA-256: c4d0926f4c2ce2c9d6140e641b2f3ba1fdbea64c8468b2620ef120bcd4a0700f
font_01_sfnt_off000105eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011dfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DFD 22964 bytes
SHA-256: 2d15e2941f665767d9f17cdbd1fe6816956ea89bc003d27d096660a02feff8bf