Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cd25a8e5a404ef1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-08-16 07:02:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: ac3990f94505d9d147b567a048d9f42e SHA-1: bd19c1e54d83d0b4ae1c1013df5c6d287c6dcded SHA-256: 4cd25a8e5a404ef1443d279ecdccbb59905d45f44c84757287db57110102b2f8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm and a lure for invoices or payments. The presence of multiple external URIs, some pointing to compromised CMS uploads, suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious sites. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest it's designed to facilitate phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://cablexconsulting.com/Upload/file/vekewepa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mulroyenvironmental.ie/userfiles/file/90612137531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://k1a.ru/images/files/file/32321228310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bephoangdung.vn/uploads/ckfinder/files/72884771182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/17167841426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northcity.rs/slike/files/fezaludufasivofin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maslag.eu/userfiles/file/balajekekaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0ae0062b5a---15829220630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarent.tw/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210713_B92EC9A8E7232065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antwerp-reefer-tournament.be/argt/files/33086040131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gilendor.cz/userfiles/file/4231766009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.auditek.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abf82fc57d7---16135270123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.swx.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ae7016ba990a27b7500d515297abf97/9137486278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mediawerf.nl/bundles/store24backoffice/ckfinder/userfiles/files/napibipazabanavisefug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://statewideroofservices.com/clients/b/b8/b825a24af54c157c196cf52173d75bf0/File/kexuxipugevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-park.es/img/uploads/files/pekiwibolubewuzovij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://binarbaid.com/public_html/userfiles/file/gidunusuxufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5427901506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elitestrategyglobal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb4dacaaa8fd9429645fc64f9d760d8e/60422531785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimwendelldesign.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/riniba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingstop.com/uploads/files/55071813723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lucann.com/Upload/file/66133413807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliceinformaticasrl.com/user/pages/96484442758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harom.ro/files/file/62612904115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kbchina.de/upload/mipak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=where+to+find+interest+expense+on+balance+sheetPDF 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_off0000ddc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDDC5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5DC 10952 bytes
SHA-256: 769b10eb823b1a9ce8058900e1d5a88de15439a31e07faf56b0bb303114eb4f6
font_02_sfnt_off00010f01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F01 17200 bytes
SHA-256: dd865d5b8328a435aba48b40ebcf26936a45cf46f25acb0623eb4e9e1e409dd4