Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cf7927171309d1d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-30 13:14:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 9fa0b1dc9a5af86f8ff582c2bb3bec2f SHA-1: a04bfb1ac2519dce1771d13e4f86b8b192b55419 SHA-256: 4cf7927171309d1d77d3556a74e6ef9d1e97dcca62e31e89feff8726db25d1cc
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs, some of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://teedinmaesai.com/user_img/file/noritejamefob.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://zdravka.hlpr.hr/userfiles/file/65588969056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.firengo.com/userfiles/files/tunebetipipewiwofalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614288968d2b4---vejufekixawugijugig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldofpacifiers.com/editor_uploads/system/files/lonowoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133f1e82416a---begixejisamobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villa-carlshorst.de/sites/default/files/file/bokurelumopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/pusenavapokiduzinemapigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lafiestadelmoto.cz/files/file/76021628623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.wm-meyer.de/meyer/admin/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruzobibidaguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staceyasp.com/UserFiles/file/2763770851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hermosabeachbungalows.com/userfiles/files/50813092613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bibonatura.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64324759521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kubermatkaplay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/guwodomodasikaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adproissy.emailingmanager.com/uploads/editor/file/97098266569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architettotamborra.eu/userfiles/files/84332922126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soupworld.de/upload/file/41906061693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ringid.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58321858582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kamkmori.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/45439143869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.larche-de-jules.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kemazovadunuketogofizif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ednak.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161558aa20c1e4---16812017671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://progettogeometra.it/userfiles/files/56614898551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161480037c3914---32622818496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3d50879d884faf14ca5723da2209a4e9/14953054414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nachhilfeschule.havonix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/326163877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=ph%E1%BA%A7n+m%E1%BB%81m+quay+video+%C4%91%E1%BA%B9p+cho+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_off0000e40d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE40D 29444 bytes
SHA-256: f7441cbea512c318a6b0c03319fe4f071e3605fee4d90dcf9ee825dcf5d558b5
font_01_sfnt_off00011caa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CAA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000134c1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134C1 11628 bytes
SHA-256: 46a4a85256c1ad241d87dcdeb298505a15d1c1763df86c3a7ce8b343e3c479c8