Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c0d90e55e37becf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.0 KB Created: 2021-05-26 19:26:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: f5fcc5a64deebc31ecf0461f96c730c4 SHA-1: b89983816c620831598cbb956fc8ef7b6f2e765a SHA-256: 4c0d90e55e37becf206cca90d5c8a87b43a105f63f90be066d615fe3acdc71eb
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to scientific information, likely to trick users into clicking the embedded malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+determine+if+an+atom+is+polar PDF link annotation
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089d9f648b01---58657006760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/nolofoxikotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083de312262f---xisofepimik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b05c3549f15f8845fb2a0eb1d1d542c3/dalolobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kameleonhastanc.hu/files/file/mevasar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/pomuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sygimportaciones.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ienqabo86edkhcp2t43knv9ogj/1594612939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7dfd05a688806a5585758dabbd29620/jusinagepovunivusepidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turnyras.lt/Files/file/53191628614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57fc2fa9e1d9ed0812462f520d99ad2b/tuzifewad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adatechotomasyon.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac9fe3a113e---pijisirubojefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golddustdental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b687c8bf38---rononasapulekebotuxober.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drainscovers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3daaf695764cd37d12d4e39fb2d8fb0f/35005563755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://graffitipaintstudio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5b68f9abc34e3f2365247bbc7f271233/pitorasunejiwozolek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grupogmec.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089264573166---vojenasovoludow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d822.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD822 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 75e36321d1e1fb4d3576b13449061a568066e8e1064a67f8fe1ea7596e9d6b2e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9EC 9796 bytes
SHA-256: 8e8264a800e13926696e56134fde512ba380f59d3976f6a27d86ddd6bd01902d