Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4c819d5406cd3622…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:23:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3d6d2c7b234544186f8fd7cdf4bc0574 SHA-1: 98d002f7a1340a4a3310dcd6884af6fe7c739add SHA-256: 4c819d5406cd36229d08a47f4e502146ec62df933d6157fed905a4b499c7079f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on disposable infrastructure, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and the ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF files hosted on compromised CMS upload directories further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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 http://apismorava.eu/docs/tozexagoxuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ct-tci.com/cttax/userfiles/files/witewusafimawojirasibafit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holycrosshealthcare.com/userfiles/files/rowiwodedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bluetact.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kisip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medsplus.us/admin/images/file/gikevog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/484dd75a776f315a0016586bbf48cb0e/41717965339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kramor.bg/userfiles/file/nobume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drinkpoint.com/uploads/files/7447493121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jizupironejilowajifamilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapientgenerator.ru/files/userfiles/files/49486648403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://needletherapy.eu/upload/file/42359729731.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.airportlimofortlauderdale.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133913e99f95---38309206471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8bc5b0f9343598c3d1cf0940166651/83848978215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coluer.ir/documents/file/83779649391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614007ce518b8---74635724799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ucinnovation.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92030972104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dukeofmarshall.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/geten.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://solturism.ro/images/file/86146183154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://servicedental.it/userfiles/files/710824098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adeptos.clevercloud.pt/images/items/files/zunufuvenuxitijuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfort8889.com/upload/files/bafapogevuvagamipeliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=windows+7+iso+file+download+with+product+key+freePDF 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_off0000d737.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD737 16432 bytes
SHA-256: 1972ebbe660050ee82bd3b6157630f2f9016f7beaa8849acaffbcdcfc6624050
font_01_sfnt_off00010195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10195 11152 bytes
SHA-256: 395b166b1c4c02d05a501c6dbb45d647ac3b473e305d207604732a1611f007ae
font_02_sfnt_off00011bba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BBA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1