Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c65d8539f7228a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.5 KB Created: 2021-08-03 05:19:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9b8059078b48b077efd27c859b1410e1 SHA-1: 28de3071fc318704d8483edc691708856928ca52 SHA-256: 4c65d8539f7228a29b581ea80de3503bd7fc4b3bf7ea1484b6090b11fd2fb3f3
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF designed to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://3dreamstudios.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3703dbde19d29c0bdeea3472bc80f97b/feseva.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087e52b7cca8---41498328598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn-----6kcabagcgfjsxjciriy6alkh6a7aqk.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/50edff61721cd7fb677738a9d23e0929/wovagowabevexibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luatsuavina.com/userfiles/file/mafekigola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadirumshootingstars.com/userfiles/file///60016732093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://al-wesam.com/userfiles/files/5949718789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akproauto.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/5676662495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phoenixturkey.com/upload/ckfinder/files/posofivejabumaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rec39.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/970c3258206e49fc63bcb2b14515cd0b/47804910619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/fanilesez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawyermo.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/wozatetaforeneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgts9qvlmjbfksgmmg8e3mueh4/65188367275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/18020994224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.restorationservice.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de850767728---64605811351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/2654701049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9c5f75698b---12982307981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fffafd2ba3---rakej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brightfieldbusinesshub.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9dviscjta3cbcn5piknrm72r2d/7759671764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-bom.kr/upfile/files/jawidibipafumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fouladsazanco.com/Upload/file/1986525817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balance-global.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0bdrun84j9knlci5u6a50d4bvk/66013410189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/welov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6e1d53bb1c---68163910107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=learn+german+daily+conversation+pdfPDF 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f238.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF238 11100 bytes
SHA-256: 39e46184ab0421b40c2bf010bce385d8e2081dbbf38a6cdca4ba09efac18e1e9
font_01_sfnt_off00010be6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE6 19496 bytes
SHA-256: 3085bb7d91c3de049785e553a23079073baa8fc80748d9b1ed8df6c9c3c91aed
font_02_sfnt_off00013ddd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13DDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1