Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cd73b512358ff1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-13 23:49:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: c05f4e406129267057897ee10f012d4b SHA-1: 8129286b78e46038c4c6a4b41a32ee73a4e7a2cd SHA-256: 4cd73b512358ff1f69d917b03894266d7ee97805d247d78d0292778d368ee0e7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO abuse. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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 http://trevorhannant.com/91054041758.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nomaquito-travel.com/editor-images/kitusipofujujuzajakupidek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://12shio1.com/contents/files/7408824255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uaqbakery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132734283e3d---54864564933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zajuvomupofukibuwamodupow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygoaltv.org/ipp/images/uploads/files/dikabelabetekata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://truongthanhco.vn/webroot/img/files/zunoteviwenodofurel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gianenricofabro.com/userfiles/files/kofabafofaxoxowemap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockbond-aac.com/id-admin/fckImages/file/lavubatugenipafaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.southforconstruction.com/frontend/web/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dolifigegopulesizawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panegovernance.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/file/42925021046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://energy-labels.com/userfiles/file/dowiferojupukinotefaxij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarkar.ie/userfiles/file/garibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kammed.com/userfiles/file/50516745151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://honghuibio.com/d/files/45568104499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrt-foto.hu/_user/file/53748249260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.ch/upload/77559109571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.com/contents/files/57153830369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativitagh.com/pevron/www/img/file/muwewavadivajekepukire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameradungphat.com/uploads/files/dekeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b7d7069a15---fibodunifufidasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://festivalecolo.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fabef43800---84744108063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--2e0b30g3uq7pay7m.com/upload/fckeditor/file/tegezenividoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-coeppicus.ch/upload/file/mesutixexeginuxajemukozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=tutti+i+giochi+gratis+per+androidPDF 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_off0000f10e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF10E 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 31570c1e98f6490030b87e329aea0eae4b1b4e8113482e3b757a5f03361543ff
font_01_sfnt_off000109ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121CC 17744 bytes
SHA-256: 7f5738e68bfb191b3711317428b0d8ec6adb6ec542dbbcb75d971936a881237e

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