Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cf034e7451ae1d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-06-03 15:50:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 06fafeea41979abd3a897a2fd9388967 SHA-1: 02814ed29d2f82ad34f1c6fea2f9748838394689 SHA-256: 4cf034e7451ae1d552959aee21f40c6580bca52283d7cde1a5ef3dd072e6f7d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to various websites, many of which are identified as link farms on compromised CMS uploads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple distinct hosts and the structure of the URLs suggest an attempt to obscure the final destination or leverage compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://evg-prague.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901ab7a6cf3---53133927556.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b330a43cc74---perebemokofixusagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://falerisztika.hu/tmp/pebofolazalitijuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aldea.work/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffefcad1a31e0ee8e7ac3efcd41de61f/57728495042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sipsib.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f6d6dac279deb8085ca36e8ebbcd9e6/fopikulegaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgmkt.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb5a787180---puxurawokujivimuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.edutechusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab22fcae86---mumamemixejuxizazexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e4b8b49ad9---40473010793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.melloecastro.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160784682eb951---wawepux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vdbergelectro.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4de046d29d98398afd98b313066a77ca/lowurefojekowibodeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saftanton.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f0c12d2ad7---ziwagojesebalobukafeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sitebyside.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29e9561a823f1fda7b708d9daa33cc01/35474980795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2dfdbeba1487e894948031ea9e443ef9/zujavupomozivavafanujuvem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aelma.com/sites/default/userfiles/file/64699119273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://awlights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6264b15742cd17b52dfa31bc3d81e7c/pavubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=wayne+weiten+psychology+themes+and+variationsPDF 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d606.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD606 5752 bytes
SHA-256: 28cf82a34431afdb742f263fff91a8c422df6d5b4953bbec061e8002926a46cc
font_01_sfnt_off0000e99b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE99B 10220 bytes
SHA-256: 226796c86ba4d662dc3b54769382a63ce1c0471d37d6eacb039d8bd7230df241