Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c197d19fb9fac49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.8 KB Created: 2021-09-05 03:00:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 7394c6727654cf1e167889464a2869d2 SHA-1: bf699cc037b2d5996702b6bca41ca95494d9e387 SHA-256: 4c197d19fb9fac49ddd8726a7b4527713f45fb498145731151856404d29174fe
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it likely exploits a vulnerability or serves as a phishing lure. The file contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URI heuristics further supports the attack pattern of directing users to potentially harmful websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://stpeterscbs.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vulusotogola.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://szakkepzosiklos.hu/upload/file/26548571489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhythmcprandfirstaid.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b019366cab70a5683adf9df4746e43e1/8382033492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenar.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d021a1f583---rufarabobelabuzaxanisifup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://macautemple.com/userfiles/file/fepuwovurabowopikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fygl.net/uploads/file/220307087624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadgatecapital.com/userfiles/file/57172097827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.golaw.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9ddc95871a---41020224642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drukarnia-skawina.pl/app/webroot/media/files/xudigoxeposoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accurateverdicts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094031ca78ea---71531425479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiospazioambiente.it/userfiles/files/molopaxasabot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somersetcountybar.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/57644626569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traslochimontalto.it/userfiles/files/60577562627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichigroup.net/uploads/news_file/pefasigonuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/53d65d3f476dc9f0c50a2e6e6416b1f6/28593583030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belhasasecurity.com/userfiles/file/17053455688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dashoernerboot.de/userfiles/foritawojadamegelipuratuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sergeca.com.ve/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79654505257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sadrainsurance.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/wudonojilupexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kabelkyaobuv.sk/editor_uploads/files/pasapubibadel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ae1bb48d0---gafepolupudukujabat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----8sbaavnccwq4am.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a390c57ae4f7a347554b83344cb15b6/juripujadekaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firegallery.ru/img/upload/vizikupoxolivomifeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=convert+pdf+to+dwg+file+in+autocad+2019PDF link annotation
    • http://perfecturology.cafe24.com/upload/editor/imagefile/rebavominomumuxabivu.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_off0000e39f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE39F 17708 bytes
SHA-256: 2e5a82d943cd2f26fa747f2fed2edf96aa959059d3210a578ab124f27f68d241
font_01_sfnt_off00011213.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11213 11372 bytes
SHA-256: 5ee94c0b36a71fd512d90b35030bd287d291bcdd9c5425d463665d66a8969370
font_02_sfnt_off00012cf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12CF4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1