Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d4026cdffca64d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2021-09-07 17:54:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 705dd30c360296c269deca6089cf551b SHA-1: d19c1e1a22fe731e63884b2dfd4ecd9508e5beb8 SHA-256: 4d4026cdffca64d776df69545722c9e6eb826b2c02458b1930bd50b819257166
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting. The primary purpose appears to be redirecting users to external sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://deltools.com/userfiles/file/7950452554.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://arhstroi.by/uploads/files/15605658745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://batikatravels.com/userfiles/file/46493204103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kyanite.tv/userfiles/file/kixabawexefaxinivopupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://belgradenightlife.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jpucq9q836malbcsce18kubeif/nilagawosabow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanconstructions.org/images/uploadedimages/file/68440932149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.goldenlantern.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16107e4e317849---vivuzezekamogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://badaranquehablar.com/userfiles/files/27939584415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medicalbi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lonubarezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zeguvietnam.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/75696549155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabrikando.com/cmsimple/images/file/rolavikomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/ritowogameruzofukep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lapalettedesarts.fr/gestion/file/79913840617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://022-web.cn/uploadfile/file/20210731184954593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imoroz.by/upload/file/fajepebisofatipolam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amerismithenterprises.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07b83038dd57a862b3e5e948ff49df4a/saxisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amiablediamonds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/57d2aeaacaffa6abb20b3e73c57ab49e/40039093414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607916b55e32a---jubokofol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pocatellocampfire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8ddjurssqcp1dc8gnvm6ndpapd/3464023414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miaousland.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48097032671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://colakcivi.com/userfiles/file/32057685862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aedwea.com/upload/foto/72613327991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terezmisszio.eu/files/file/35213142640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exhibitionchannel.com/upload/zikogejesimafirokagux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uniqrelation.com/userfiles/file/dumedivepovitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/80016045985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=diversidad+cultural+que+existe+en+mexico+pdfPDF 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_off0000d25d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD25D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA74 11196 bytes
SHA-256: 2d046a37b07fdd01323aa449d9b2afdd59c72fce90597da50915e2da5c368e72
font_02_sfnt_off0001047c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1047C 18748 bytes
SHA-256: c6129e15ebefcefbb341ad7513ba0ba3da268429ed9984b7f5ab6d9c5e3ccc9f

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