Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d4e64596126db2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 13:14:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e086a213c1c7ee205d856d02dafd09cc SHA-1: ee13670473b3bbde843d92dca79c7d0c2f5cf522 SHA-256: 4d4e64596126db2a436c74ce8edbd39e7009bf4b9167f383481c6f296fd32f1a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://grupo-kayros.com/userfiles/file/folabefoje.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://icfas.net/icfas_new/dev/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59930435799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thriveelearning.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/350d01dd5d4987a0630cd4709af2d2fd/38103433035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://szao-spb.ru/images/news/file/zenup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fier-forjat-valimet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56055651491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aparcaderoshaddaichile.cl/uploads/images/files/totamiwavugizamenonili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://postscriptproductions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1a717d5d85---3694684936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetmesum.com/contents//files/kasit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edu-family72.ru/content/images/uploads/file/2473602320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lengthening-sldf.com/userfiles/file/ligewesekaxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuyewpilot.academy/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91177dedcf580072a7322ecfe268c25f/99423442850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ad46947d6ccea01eb9f21c4bf6f24ddd/99071130798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://store-connector.com/_upload_bilder/_filemanager/file/zilubuwabojekovusavorovop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607488a32be5f---tonitojepexigujag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fashioneducation.ru/userfiles/file/ravexemubiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sidertest.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093dd9255097---xunupasituxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://winston-woodward.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/72d83d840c66298e80000894b8be5de3/92254565281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fototipia.hu/files/files/74869120815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimbuunguyen.com/uploads/userfiles/file/dabagetixonovamidudateg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecrivains-consult.fr/easyonline/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94392425759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artside.org/data/temp/file/timevunevedawuninobasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pacantioquia.org/aym_image/files/46415974398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pass-eco-energies.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46627094717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/20218291125582191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads/files/202108242003562206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=law+cet+syllabus+2019+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_off0000e375.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE375 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fb8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB8C 11056 bytes
SHA-256: dccaf78c62be5db465d29cc1a68aecf5fc0df4e1e0790cc6607bd1b5a93905a3
font_02_sfnt_off00011571.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11571 18080 bytes
SHA-256: cd06b858e0ac0914bf94221cf8286606c56da46230a777e42750712e2e0abeca