Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cbc03064c6fcbd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-07-17 14:33:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: ac0859cec0b9657ed686236decbca626 SHA-1: c13149c90b639fcd7f9b441ec592bc65d214cc48 SHA-256: 4cbc03064c6fcbd0fe3a97b273078b8523c10de01d20da6670d2dbd3511bc457
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The presence of numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://utilitydiscount.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086f2df346a9---39728461457.pdf
    • http://agama-rc.com/upload/files/26765081251.pdf
    • https://roweryelectra.eu/app/webroot/uploads/file/16221756974718.pdf
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7c44595131---luzidaka.pdf
    • http://www.laterveer-biesenbeek.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fufabobuzelituzulabejisi.pdf
    • http://topcudental.com/img/userfiles/files/sizadawuxi.pdf
    • http://lotuscourtpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/o5opjvk36c4dgis3ie3ss9asc6/92215690436.pdf
    • http://schroniskoorzechowce.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xetuvasabedajemin.pdf
    • http://chinazzjx.com/d/files/bavukaxukanemuvofoj.pdf
    • https://stdtekstil.com/upload/ckfinder/files/20275663905.pdf
    • https://dpmceramiche.it/file/72538031313.pdf
    • https://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/natizetozopumiveser.pdf
    • https://f1com.ge/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ecacf2790205237d11b1b5b79d42fcb8/81002996665.pdf
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8dcec2cbc3---73486561385.pdf
    • http://triatlonbizuterie.cz/sites/default/files/file/68024569449.pdf
    • https://dobre-akce.cz/media/files/file/newilovev.pdf
    • http://tulga.ru/editor/files/14528902696.pdf
    • http://bydnjl.com/userfiles/files/31748049929.pdf
    • http://stsaischoolamritsar.com/slbdavbatala/userfiles/file/pemagigus.pdf
    • https://dtcprojects.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b3kl5cbae1orl194g0n652ev3/vunopojugesinubebukagu.pdf
    • https://www.idahomedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/accce8ba95ee40adc260975ed2780d10/fikubewemogugozixusonimo.pdf
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+ship+a+package+without+a+return+address
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e067.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE067 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f87e.bin
4b62259cd689acecaac109668a08689fb555c132e5f2d8f048054a10d317be44
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87E 11016 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000111f0.bin
df9c2bd831bee72e8d61baf292faf91d636386e65c20bd100da5d10083ae3652
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111F0 16900 bytes