Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c7e01968b21c265…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-15 19:58:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: c0381a37f6b70ecf2ad5f65b17b17778 SHA-1: d47ca675f8f3ae9fd1624953e4bf97d43ef2f0c4 SHA-256: 4c7e01968b21c265e6476ba6394a0f7783ac497b3582af992d1c7abb6ce14317
156 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. It contains numerous embedded URLs that form a link farm, suggesting it may be used for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of compromised CMS upload links further supports the idea that this PDF is part of a larger malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=superhero+costume+photo+editor PDF link annotation
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/20794801098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.geosuiteonline.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140a4a2ed7a1---zamaxone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://michalpavlicek.com/uploaded/file/23142065251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/273fe6c5ff7664b9a119045c2f667f24/55397325651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41720181301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ewdel.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30338643005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebuzz.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/taxorebolesazufoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalathena.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wejabip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bielle-srl.com/userfiles/files/2807033651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eldorado777.ro/upload/editor/file/15071644419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nadrozmerne-sklo.cz/uploads/10808846930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pjkconstruction.ca/images/file/nigafedop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xyr59.com/filespath/files/20210914090829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innobiztour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210911_1A578A8E80431C5A.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithatdangcap.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/54789360735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://o2opr.co/userfiles/files/kozufitumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161360e4f92a4e---zazutabavusobat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valubil.com/public/uploads/cms_file/cms_files/15701385517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thegioidongphuc.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93849603422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/01181a4b4845656aaf9b74fd1b91c8f0/76675427394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://superfishinglewood.com/uploads/files/15964826768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/38825918219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhxndl.com/uploadfiles/files/vawukuwufanevemupajukizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faurerom.com/userfiles/file/pasufuj.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_off0000d99f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD99F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B6 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 51b09d8f23079c5a8156fe035ba0877fe02b379f7e6ae3343e58f5a3ec4e60bd
font_02_sfnt_off00010a06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A06 19444 bytes
SHA-256: d1562259c9a1823d6c7abdd35d55535bde13f134c0851f6fe7a921cedff7d7fb