Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cd48fb74cc17c2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-07 04:23:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: b57ec52c6b7c40ac8a1ef78f28513d3a SHA-1: 14a269b7c641d6f159d1a037f86aec5f38824b60 SHA-256: 4cd48fb74cc17c2c505fe5c69dc4a38562efc109e189e4728306dc9d0af79211
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'cmd.com/data/files/' in the document text indicates an attempt to execute commands, likely to download and run further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=liquefied+natural+gas+pdf+free PDF link annotation
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210523134500_570042817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdcmd.com/data/files/62107664683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/njpq3dadffnvhed5cms3vl2vug/18122939479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xhiehchin.com/Xhieh_News/_file/nefofexibuvokawe.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad71262d83e89800796cc3e7c13cb3e2/23292096671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://directartdeal.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/46508604081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alituncer.com/userfiles/file/zidofilatajagosatetupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/26589139451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehigh86.com/clients/13680/File/15819742435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtrafitcoaching.com/www/images/files/webujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hed-endo.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1a6fbb8246---memazakole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chocolatycakes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3d4b1517a0---90246518654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16096765fdff05---pawopadigojovukofug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jimenez-casquet.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f012a529a6b---zogajesevigoluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eclickapps.in/userfiles/files/43654104865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf16b4f7afa221803b66c22a500da4f1/87552708788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9883fa278658c2131efa0e4fc48fd14c/jujurozivas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mercedesbenzofaustinservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba845feeb62---85485409523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/86315069005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kassa-evotor.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffadp59c71mcqrahsv3vccufb8/kemuvevafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://concertwristband.com/resimler/files/13978126871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vashadvokat82.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e026cac009d4d267f6022f36a1c0b78d/gobiwazebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askisan.com/upload/ckfinder/files/ralulotiviki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lecostationery.com/files/file/12384500146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigitaIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • 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_off0000debe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEBE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D5 10756 bytes
SHA-256: ae709e687a8c72e0c1521cfd2be9651785163b456283ca6f4fe86f15feec0e2a
font_02_sfnt_off00010f21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F21 19768 bytes
SHA-256: 1d54d8797aa09cd084b3a68c6193e27bb8f8ffea4f043634669fc8b8363b4a0d