Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c7892dc051ffff9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.5 KB Created: 2021-07-22 05:30:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8e03d9d5b0e8b9848285bef4fd6dc018 SHA-1: a9dec1fc4a373a567f51ba14188d99ceb7c6c611 SHA-256: 4c7892dc051ffff943e59030fa9a512d5e61298d1538366b8abd178435d0e76d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://global-poseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607772c20fbcb---30249546756.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://holocaustresearch.pl/nowy/photo/file/gananowunonokaperileme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sjamsul-hidajat.id/ck_uploads/uploads/files/lajezesufolegaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tahubunting1.com/contents//files/75002283682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sistersaviopublicschool.com/userfiles/file/kawekepijatizebebaloje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edanieltour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210704_74E72599CB62FD81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/67393283036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://faceless.me/userfiles/files/kozegozowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.vn/uploads/files/20065291439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cb05e57ca3---vamasekoziloxulak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://designpavelzapletal.cz/files/file/99513440232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buddhavehicle.com/userfiles/file/8464131431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rocksoliddesigns.biz/userfiles/file/texibog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oneself.pro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074a16c4e279---30620280590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bclgrouptt.com/userfiles/file/toxixifefosani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea2ur4pebe679jhmkm8ve9r702/dadakaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0e16dc1a28---logesiboropitefavuxud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ar-intl.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lon6cj6al94jvtq66etdd7kvp2/fagufug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://promocode.lu/userfiles/files/nuzowekivafija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hillcountryawningsandsunscreens.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160811de5d00a9---71496096769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bascobrunswick.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608392819288e---37660324635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestmiamiturf.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b937ab4bc252271115507d0c25b1d0f/liwapitopevavuvomapomokoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettosbaffo.com/userfiles/files/35679341730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=best+catholic+songs+mix+download+mp3PDF link annotation
    • http://e1pl2.nazwa.pl/busy/fotki/file/liwigutodewipux.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f021.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF021 18008 bytes
SHA-256: 45745f7e33b1f0eb8c2c735588de7414e495978486cdc313a7827bad6cdc8e4c
font_01_sfnt_off00011faa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000137bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137BB 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5144547e0b729630886a3ad3ce48e7da84b0115899dd9c2390406af6f0fecd
font_03_sfnt_off00014d01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14D01 11276 bytes
SHA-256: d2aedd35fd1927e703a51f88bd7abb520be906cec3df3a52cd43c53bd42db5d0