Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cd7ec9b1fb07865…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-06-30 23:15:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: a4927b2ce26c1e7bda8ad2ee40592564 SHA-1: 4c6f403bcc9daed816d04403457a5711b3bc692c SHA-256: 4cd7ec9b1fb07865a86204fd3f6ff56bbe3765f5296ba3c0603cd7b6c8937944
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The presence of a download button lure further supports the phishing or malware distribution scenario.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://bistakalikotenetwork.com/userfiles/file/99120911885.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9f051b01dc0d7bb06f8c3282633e7f1/93797286407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kosmonautika.ee/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70301523420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kmclogistics.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f465fbed08def367c7569316b1bcd54/13442144296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/728d9b0b5f125b2fcd3a10b508e82caf/filavevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/hu8pnje4korssftpoqst6ku4pt/67562913540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imapcb.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7prmsf96e6t7p9nfcigd8pjov0/ririmopaxeditu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neonatal-surgery.ru/userfiles/files/wedojukepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/67ca619a6dc76cb92b842d7e3de9e69d/xegupebofumovuzetitosom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maturana.cl/upload/file/vibuwosizuxavaliwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clifestyle.net/uploades/userfiles/file/28084012290.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/86104639adddb0da0ec4711d7f8c079c/bapivof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hadlowsecurityshutters.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c26b54f31aac46dcf624c49fe1b13241/58709903103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.digitalsofts.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a63d2cbaef0---73666982219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aawyx.com/sites/default/imageuser/file/fawoxonusope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/42254884881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namastehealth.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rgr35er54j20bfepe37cfmkmn7/44163281135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073c947df9d9---mudarivoduluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.zopfitravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b822e7065e1---besuxudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac511baf803---bujutifovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/22137194219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=9th+class+english+test+papers+chapter+wisePDF 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_off0000e27c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE27C 10692 bytes
SHA-256: 3e34e95ab6fe4e42d8abefcd3543f098894912439a9be777f0fd4a505c49866f
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB09 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001131b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1131B 16028 bytes
SHA-256: 4a3be05a20801b77e3edad5f39e34b2d38a9618e9468c89604d3efdfeb8adb3e