Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d56b824044794c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.7 KB Created: 2021-09-04 06:17:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: d80b0c3712ef25e8427de4b63a24aa94 SHA-1: d99b7e3e4d22d67eb0240b43b3b6a207b1a77aec SHA-256: 4d56b824044794c3daaeab83cf5556d057d30e8fe09865b8d874d5d057f3b886
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing or credential harvesting attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=bpt+intercom+installation+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://aep-tc.com/cache/fck_files/file/vadafomulepupojuzibufix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210516132226102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/7410386344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotronic.eu/files/file/tumejemosasomezimudida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flomojapan.com/upload/files/funofabufozej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thermcom.cz/userfiles/file/suxowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8e6b7c4fa6---45001714486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://georgewongdesign.com/gwd/upload/files/36689541350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlitalia.com/userfiles/files/pugafogew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/24834242147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kenshopvn.com/uploads/files/65005059943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veronicaneal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160bdfc3b321d7---baganijitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castilloexterior.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29568893077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aahsclassof1978.com/clients/b/b6/b6117739535924054831d33ecd54b00a/File/xotafezof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://claphamtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/92673528425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe1b558fbe3---29137536173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.zulilighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a4b3eece462415fe138c36515f88b5af/56927859425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/nukoxonelorabow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612828273df63---40633787048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc4ccf174f782bd6bf6baeada18bab2d/podizezew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://advicetao.eu/pictures/file/latidixokerotelix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fk-fudosan.net/app/webroot/img/userfiles/files/xunawovabubetilijupojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e22edbe587031a778b012e6b9852698d/gituvinevepefesitil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f58df8224b---45728309372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000e0a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A7 18312 bytes
SHA-256: c9506aa6f71a324f06f6568b5e525c9923537685f62b7ec651e69f8b88ce620d
font_01_sfnt_off0001102e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1102E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012845.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12845 10688 bytes
SHA-256: a85257ae28c692dfe971aa54c5a09ff4e940ba737aee44bb58591cf46963c901

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