Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c76c4bc001bcc26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-06-28 20:57:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: abad77e992f975a440c7da9cdb6df562 SHA-1: 26d9b13e937cbf5fb73e874236ffad94ab42ecfe SHA-256: 4c76c4bc001bcc26b8b2ce4eca11970a85c14f0250282cf3fd0becc5e184992d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=been+having+contractions+all+day PDF link annotation
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/19027789487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/jiziluredevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jorkurojus.com/userfiles/file/gefozuranumuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d7c0264bafda80c9429808cfd037e9f/xesarazozemeropawonosizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f90bd3271f---jikodewuvomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haps.company/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1280asj3eq56p4jv7th80fg7h7/dedoxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onhimalayas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nazorafogesivurisirum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/svnd8j2lc7kalcie6u67h4psq1/xekakowevomudejupesowij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cbb735bcf8f---dopanenexexok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stehovani-ostrava.cz/static_pages_files/file/27098174834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cheapmotorcycleinsurancepa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p7h3hath96gljnc99njl7kinc2/71215753143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.birdandwildlifeteam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160827d6aa1d3d---75529828282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infunplastic.com/d/files/10862261389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botanicgardenscafe.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160783b04a10b2---xelujimutaseb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sadcmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rfl9e9v23sqhhramkp0suc2fg2/14515451052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089a2d53d7da---rekakur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082e35f3dc09---50119642840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amadpich.com/userfiles/file/wososuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://askort.pl/Upload/file/58547386910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://halobysciton.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a20db934e6f---zakewupanesifike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultraljud.nu/bild/files/xagonidaxemiwozujove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sztarmedia.hu/_user/file/97523681872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d6e5d85df3ad6ff58b1a277faef1f04/75047065763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leo-translate.com.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160855e2af1cdf---zugizelakoxuvobetapem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0ff89b898d---96616723437.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_off0000ba42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA42 15596 bytes
SHA-256: 44dcc902808b7caf92dadd3e43d04e1b4d70794b0951ba189084c842373f9614
font_01_sfnt_off0000e24b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE24B 10884 bytes
SHA-256: 62947b444c214668bd7fbd9471392ad7be57303b9310dfce55d43005b195f641
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1