Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c2377af2e953e17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-09 07:01:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: cad496502b5ce60ddf5c39974de1b36d SHA-1: 01df68b5a48cc17e3c91ca7a7a6299a2d069990e SHA-256: 4c2377af2e953e17b0c6fb8c07f70890c64648ad5c5e1c7e9093e55a9dba476f
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous URLs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable or compromised domains. The primary function appears to be redirecting users to malicious websites, likely for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=what+does+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://heaig.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95218923510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hangmandigital.com/files/file/vaboralunesodilekatigup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dennehylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/luvuxipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sv-fin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dde9d675d15903f5f7ec31f99e08e1f/25596056176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/26545328316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chochosanencino.com/uploads/files/12838603441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carscaso.com/js/upload/files/52368827587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161317c998b675---76734518306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kfbma.org/files/fck/file/90621917338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petpetmates.com/files/editor/file/tefifeluju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pacemakerpressintl.com/uploads/assets/file/4270890339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suaups.net/userfiles/file/84257567165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dedywiredja.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355e97c97c2---kaliwudewuroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoskola-scp.com/files/89966220705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprojectmanagement.guru/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36907205944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cingenito.ca/upload/editor/file/85715795516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbemnkjd7bfu.xn--p1ai/design/img/upload/file/78452400678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cpils.com/userfiles/file/zamorunufegar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoangle.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/68480310564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ontech.vn/images/ckeditor/files/digonipitonufuterukiwose.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_off0000e24e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE24E 18756 bytes
SHA-256: 51714b2d8873ad6a87fc54aca7940fbd86cec6887f1eaf463b0ae3311abf8e8e
font_01_sfnt_off000112ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x112BA 10248 bytes
SHA-256: c6e97709988a00fec5f8e4935061fe4d869e64686c8a5a24c10ceef2ba2ab836
font_02_sfnt_off000129ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129EF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1