Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c2cb31bc17f3122…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-08-28 16:51:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 42934d51c3ff451dee898471a33b925f SHA-1: d8eba36a707ab22903b3a576f7992ce6f7fdcc91 SHA-256: 4c2cb31bc17f3122c4e9b547539fccbe77c71a2dff39ccd9c86370ce1764cb2d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URLs are likely used to redirect users to malicious content or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=codon+and+anticodon+example PDF link annotation
    • http://xz-brand.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotazagifamuxulisugum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marymo.ru/uploads/files/50703139606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j28aocdb62sbimn48150aeg5p1/2929473624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.multilandtours.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42321513459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radeton-cz.vasestranky.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/deraxazusonasewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodegaadrover.com/userfiles//imagenes/6940653755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensionshoppe.com/alpha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ripawipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1mn0p066j7a49039b6jdu1b9v8/lazevet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shacklefordlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/tenuzof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/29897102920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uhorder.com/upload/files/11895229717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indiebookoftheday.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c04aa38296---98217934616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lu4nh23igom7357j7qepmb5j6o/watavenuwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heatingboiler.ca/fck_upload/file/repipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alarcon-v.com/editor_upload_image/file/nowutelevijawugikatatipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/108bfac253385fa26986ad657487a44f/xeriwesuvalix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etcbt.com/userfiles/file/29926758303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hy-concrete.ru/d/files/13945136868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085ee5f7c405---54942980449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highendschmiede.de/highendfiles/file/wolizepamamilovorinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marcado.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b490ba7ed9---sutomopusomaretawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halvani.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608b1d323bc6d---toxukapekuzutexiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://progin.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5821399020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hodinovysoused.cz/upload/file/badivonilivizarowusimew.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_off0000b79f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB79F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cfb1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFB1 16580 bytes
SHA-256: 4b6f733096fcfc2dea2300721085d66e9b9a0a41f0e65c829256ae05b08429b8
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA87 10540 bytes
SHA-256: b706d7fe5903b571019a0b5f841ae1c82d532644897e4158a0b27ed6d764a842