Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c1b34e1ac2cacda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.5 KB Created: 2021-07-20 17:18:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: b1d580c52bb055a9037fef6a066ef804 SHA-1: a1f48fb80cf6fd7841c92db8df9bcd0380ac09d0 SHA-256: 4c1b34e1ac2cacdadd74616e1a62d7b6f0e1671b426654606152d978fc3da6b4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9746

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://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/28849268726.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nikken-engineer.jp/export/sd205/www/jp/r/e/gmoserver/8/6/sd0748886/nikken-engineer.jp/fckeditor/upload/file/pufavebubeponuvevob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purpledoorchurch.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160776cc3b436b---mezoxemawipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ricoconsultingattorney.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/zajatudewapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f28d1bfe82---ruxebelanener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/34himp5s4u8277jedno14sd7d3/zesirilegijuguzop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gdius5bth05gtppkf5d09qm8ae/fifesigipis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f732f4c4ec---mitenubefepofowumare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cc8483e0ef---38837151154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/40194039920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://firesystem.ro/imagini_ws/tumuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://functionalmovement.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea77b80fc1c029109266614bdb5b09b4/71027609966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wwpokebar.com/uploads/files/bekalijajetenej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alaskacounseling.org/clients/8/87/870ae3779d21e956d596131c1dd113ff/File/sejubewepovosegupuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amoy-art.com/Upload/file/9789551649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fundreamz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30054058977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/wodatirapapagibuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillsdale66ersreunion.com/clients/c/c6/c679c52642bc64dd8629b98fb95ccc77/File/setabum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csim.jp/ckeditor/uploads/files/72427265872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://millecolori.it/images/file/godikevewolasilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-kiel.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084894f2eea0---gugofakuxifalomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c5805b27cff447d596287e1f80c0637b/nudidisasudorozozemepibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesontario.com/clients/e/ed/ed023a0734c265ca673a92d1d81de675/File/tipujoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--22c6buakeib3ax0bzcc5b8tlc.com/userfiles/file/kimovafuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gf-location.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d2986b4f4b---sukixanopabetukatopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luminex.pl/upload/file/xokizijim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.toptehnik.si/images/xepavuvowakibenara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=trigonometric+ratios+of+complementary+angles+class+10PDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eb88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB88 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010399.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10399 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 1bb543891201b86cb218c82ce0c1e431878b85d3145a79f40ea94bf38162e691
font_02_sfnt_off000118f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F1 18264 bytes
SHA-256: d1b88befc4ed8dc335b5783eced7b58c72950e9f9a0e84affc7ec197c4d27db5
font_03_sfnt_off00014999.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14999 11076 bytes
SHA-256: deb10d8d0f6f18af40babc92f2074ae77815eedd7f65076b9fdcc61b4d653e92