Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ce60d9eb8ea5a57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2021-09-10 18:44:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 70d3d21a84ee13720dc8654ef31277da SHA-1: 02b9731ed43185fa37d8f6ee663e599dc3d9cac2 SHA-256: 4ce60d9eb8ea5a57ea73a2723fa9c1df029c8457d69917bc792ed5d3def6cb6f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDF files, many hosted on compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery through these external links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://pacie.vn/web/uploads/files/87727206368.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://domusanna.it/userfiles/files/pigitere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gsacademy.ge/uploads/files/rokoxitajaguzofelexakopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisnordmedical.fr/docs/file/benetivukida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paneldeconso.com/userfiles/file/dimireg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pierrevillers.fr/mairie_files/file/99604620105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rentcar888.com/uploads/files/202109022143214670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bvphcn.bdata.vn/upload/files/pisesorawaxajopesatuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://homesunshinepharma.com/upload/files/wobidawenovodakirezot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikra-ekb.ru/files/fckeditor/file/zozisiveketiluforat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lienming-rubber.com/uploads/files/202109051302357865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a1a8885489---leposudolovikerofugon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valserve.in/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39529336326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/zijufizonoxozilozonugeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saydersan.com/firma/files/tuvajokiranuxidim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sbawerribee.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136781d48815---fofefapufaboroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/files/javefuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metalzilemboeventi.com/userfiles/files/savalil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funcarele.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79525361197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzbmsj.com/images/upload/File/roriwudewalaxizadoterezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matraci.info/UserFiles/File/rubebowojanupijixezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biroestarsa.hu/uploads/file/36423635784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dynasil.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c77509b559ae838f8392f4ccb4fd26c/nijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juraganmonyet.com/contents/files/23302023807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domki-kopalino.pl/pliki/49927868119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=32+degrees+celsius+to+fahrenheitPDF 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_off0000b989.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB989 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1A0 11048 bytes
SHA-256: a92e55679d18ba73d0d91df706996f8b8ff1f1a0e909877e08c24dd9fe580b9e
font_02_sfnt_off0000eb22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB22 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 9c4e52ff3097f05ed9bd17f3b2c41357ae83b9d762b21d755caf0fce021cc42b