Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d4784b4a270e66e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-18 13:00:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 2e71ed0df5c83c8036ddb297f556396c SHA-1: 8d9542dc46aa0a375feac3ebb5069c1f6869ac3d SHA-256: 4d4784b4a270e66e7e724df9f493cf3cd8090565d9bb6792975eec25122ffaf7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content or phish users. The presence of multiple PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://agro-vostok.ru/userfiles/file/49885990938.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140affc11df0---88077163196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/xipisumovedepodudojox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saglamahsapkutu.com/img/editor/image/file/vizexorudukuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614081691f4a5---jomedajetesatagerog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://donahoelawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/varazinadubofomisafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3dtechgroup.com/uploads/image/files/lawotisorawigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7db7960aa9f70df9f3ebaa8c947f018/pilutujusarakafefokijase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sindhuinvestment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/91525655792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/zapogusukas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qbcar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nesofumebidepekolakizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sapthagireesyathra.com/userfiles/file/61770239468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://divodizain.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/87001824245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82723213634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poulinstrapscan.com/userfiles/file/46948318618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.clinicaepilepsia.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31284368658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cl-pub.com/files/files/26859220186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thayloilocnuoctaihanoi.net/upload/files/fenevoragusoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtjxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210911185912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharkovinkom.com/sharkovinkom.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/desogujumimab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ajwatravel.com/wheelmarine/userfiles/file/pizujivimijisoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.actionconstructionjax.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e7755acda14c08493845dbc7aa5a897/zenepoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378e388a2f8---59117674639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitnessklub-impuls.pl/uploads/assets/file/71894996975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=app+to+play+mp3+files+on+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_off0000e8b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8B1 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 3e924cadae2e97016161ee20e45dde57fc14cc0b084e6b5006a9b57fdb96ccf3
font_01_sfnt_off00010208.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10208 17696 bytes
SHA-256: 9855ccc90e3b6d5f3aa2d0c9f9b0424a77e6065a7ee3effe3a16a22df9114583
font_02_sfnt_off00012ff0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FF0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1