Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ce48721cd285f7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.1 KB Created: 2021-07-04 21:08:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cbb73c81ae5e8e5c1b1e51e520f4739c SHA-1: c7614cd218cce9f0d66fae120f229748d91e7353 SHA-256: 4ce48721cd285f7fb4628875b2e8dbf04ee0383e6c052060536dc31f7419780f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting it is used as a lure to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of external URI heuristics and link farm indicators further supports this attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9833

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=indian+financial+system+by+bharati+v+pathak+5th+edition+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://bilagroup.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f1ddd58e00---piserogebuwutonunotenoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://svenstavik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071b296a3d00---96370307636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ferado.vn/userfiles/file/68510440273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://immo-cjeanpaul.lu/userfiles/files/ramipemulokefelazowagodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad127c737d3---zidotobatowezusugovofejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.driftime.ee/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afdf099b371---71844058316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://systematix.pl/userfiles/file/52632197321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca6a15b389---58918971870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boxerdapolenta.com/cmsimple/images/file/velawulivegefikeduwepisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c83517726e---96014663766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skrabl.pl/www/rpbd/fck/file/23671919595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teenvolunteer.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a99f6021db88e83bb8803041b02ec33/gotavawedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wita.lt/images/files/41956421535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b622a90a6c1---37773867573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hontoys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/unp5jadmhpasol76frf0fmh0j8/papufofezenekotaduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/nelegadukizonabigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glass-haus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b4da884bca58a61ce9f584de9a27cd1/92612806601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://motacademy.it/file/mabafovetidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nutranghongngoc.com/media/ftp/file/pesenevosizarazoronuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://regalcabs.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d1cdef0c9bf---87171664098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.qookspot.kitchen/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160763368bfbf6---metixoxiwebukukol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cn-junsheng.com/upload/file///20216131326078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://oneremote.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/223677192bbcbdd5224908da83579dcd/20819982626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orgue-chantepie.info/FCKeditor/upload/file/63487024633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.allterra.group/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/00dfb888de671efd45df41e1c03dc83d/8713329482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rescue.bg/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8c5440d88d---37377463663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowackleverkusen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a025603f730---wagajafakerotuligipilizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000da96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA96 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A8 17680 bytes
SHA-256: eca81b77d221f30d4c456584fed0b50dc1a83936d96d67488511df26e0baa43f
font_02_sfnt_off00011ff0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FF0 11380 bytes
SHA-256: b2576c0ccc2adb597148195ed15fa409fc1e87748aded16c12fc111a253f4988