Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cb9fa617e1d950a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.2 KB Created: 2021-08-17 14:43:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 6b1201a2125089214a24e1186adc9992 SHA-1: f5c85d8ab32a55b725fcda272543f42c3e2ff200 SHA-256: 4cb9fa617e1d950a2ec55b883743bb76e1a6278ba6ab3f9baad9ed178cee4f14
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external URIs and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a link farm on disposable hosting and compromised CMS upload storage suggests an effort to obscure the final malicious payload. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous URLs point towards a malicious workflow designed to trick users into downloading further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=inter+1st+year+english+textbook+pdf+download+ap PDF link annotation
    • http://aranysolyomfeszke.hu/editor_up/85276883553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiahealthcaredentalcentre.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98192524421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://caribemed.com/userfiles/file/kejirebaroketip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anninhsieuthi.online/upload/files/matetowot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wannawwannie.pl/userfiles/file/75075224419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puppometalli.eu/file/sirolabimomivagumezudaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://telekommarketing.com/firme_data/files/vakovarajavusiniduwokafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autotrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/30eaab0195c65328d88c2e96f5fc7c13/51276784881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infratechgroep.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/332ea99b2296acba7ec9ed3c4ab5a75f/tudedufeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bi-acaovo.com/upload/files/35405149422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artside.org/data/temp/file/63093441451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ob98vj88hp111r3k8fo4b8eb36/xejowemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.colegiometa.net/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160826dc7905c7---56764204136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f42907b37938ce27e05433478edd5248/zosunoleguxekizef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160725bd1a7194---42375446469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energo-market.ru/sadm_files/tijujusolapuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kurpinar.com/img/userfiles/files/53315754424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omgmediatank.com/userfiles/files/30643201222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muratay.nl/userfiles/file/zevuvisegadujegukesit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veritiesinstitute.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f62ce808e7f753392d24890c5c4255ba/zunimokazufedanumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://peterdegendt.be/file/93115812819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahchala.com/img/file/bazivelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://proxkimya.com/resimler/files/72865543442.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_off0000dbc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBC2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3D4 16928 bytes
SHA-256: 10f9b6c3017df08badc28ff21fce32acadab7d32e4dd96a7cac7d096e739adf1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fe3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FE3 11312 bytes
SHA-256: 1fab6ca9521df2195df953898b184a4c1faccc451a408c9d2a406aac909fb78e