Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d01487750dd580e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

145.9 KB Created: 2021-07-22 13:09:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 60c4287fd4c20c098d71565b32d88f72 SHA-1: cfa9c392783b9174cfb11b57e0fe70b926019505 SHA-256: 4d01487750dd580ecd86c8ed6e436b043c1668d0501f51e05baf823f37a15cb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated maliciousness. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristic strongly indicate an attempt to lure users to external, potentially malicious, websites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9761

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 http://teraval.cz/res/file/88625848337.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.hintonassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fe6e0d5ff84ac6d57f5776a0db40e2b1/2902567771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolfingnaples.com/clients/a/a5/a5422f62036d2d393d866963e902351c/File/sawumati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/biviravugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.blackandwhite-salon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d367fb24a4519f243261b349ea0c23e5/97306793801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nutricionintravenosa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bba2cef4dd28abe90e446eb4f9246a74/37228384745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/88mf0rrlvamgogc5qgujmvd3d7/vupapenib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danangsculpture.com/uploads/image/files/78022600823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079264f82199---55169189337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5b7bda74a8---23928323665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f2c8b46bd3---fokepumugeturiven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/26759980716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icoachyou.biz/images/ckeditor/files/76132157639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093bd097326f---58151502104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/36494440115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070fb7030da2---29277121257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themultifold.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lkh1c673n96dfqq22h9ssu67m3/43843226567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphabodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/joxavumaxul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.msolartop.cz/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b14ff4a558c---wasinowibobetadejuxega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuatro-pr.org/sites/default/files/file/26357238144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hakkabrothers.com/userfiles/file///buxawiruke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a743f517375---nagexok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingssuffolk1.com/uploads/files/nifibavanasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c611936a4fc---sibuzuvuzarotexakimubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-co.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ehso4g3lni7n6lp1d8184t5f21/64149917008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ecabb97de09---45407257889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=words+related+to+arts+and+craftsPDF 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_off0001da88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DA88 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 1fc100afed56be12103ebbdbb3e345844f465c6e084874544a736008911366da
font_01_sfnt_off0001f227.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F227 18824 bytes
SHA-256: 82c8aba9aa5c8914e63621409e6f4f3810be42d62851e7269a9df810b0878f66
font_02_sfnt_off000221ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x221EC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1