Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d1f5e91061f65fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.8 KB Created: 2021-08-14 21:52:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: b607793a5c8a41e032eeb727dfccf8b6 SHA-1: 787ba2671601adc77a03e5897b39372032c21c57 SHA-256: 4d1f5e91061f65fb9a761a871c157c7fcf2bd71d4f282daa524d1c9b1767aa14
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the URLs and the heuristic firings strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9964

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://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/148562ce9bdfcac5520a4c1c5c11ff2b/21368522818.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://mploa.com/clients/2/2c/2ccb326c3583e393996f575e36ee3974/File/41870023158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jplus-ag.com/upload/files/BodyFile__60DC0C81E3320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handgun.ee/media/file/boxekinofusodif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toeicspeaking.net/_UploadFile/Images/file/mubapogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medtek.vn/storage/file/tikizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/takejolazoven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.marsagri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2ba9eef85c---xamogevupuvup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a191bf9c8bf---rerumifewijalot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://internationalbeautypageants.com/clients/8/8c/8c0f0497d7166b07b5568c04be8084ca/File/pefafibegobiwirowiwivas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luxcottage.ru/stroykamen/userfiles/files/jatudavivexatopofelawetol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pianoszimmermann.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c143eba5d26---nilimigarifawupaxagit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/gibofefofalofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kentcliffordreunion.com/clients/a/aa/aa84b18e55fac3ff3c25336c5005d9e5/File/torezutisovosibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullertherapy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c96cc05ac2a---20132869447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlatartopalovic.rs//files/4206718651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clinicamanila.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nikigorapunud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riverasphotovideo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e9784e1ea30---1248484271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c87c2da093c---20693604407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markyatirim.com/resimler/files/53223281356.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saikunghouse.hk/userfiles/28973120791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noithattamphuong.com/upload/files/77931310406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+use+schott+ceran+electric+stovePDF 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_off0000f602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF602 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010e19.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E19 10568 bytes
SHA-256: 3295c697becbc9609e5751384a9c07e280b6d4fb7c2ca8ed844684ed95bce5f0
font_02_sfnt_off0001262a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1262A 17524 bytes
SHA-256: 88743b02dcf02550630ad73433be42a08665e2ee3218a8736e69ff7d0848c12f