Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d6c6175211d9ec2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-10-09 06:54:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-20
MD5: f072f9f75d3957b43b651ed034a61215 SHA-1: 0af0ca5b8b233527e1dee1750c97bcfd036ce197 SHA-256: 4d6c6175211d9ec2a36d14f0a189d732e78d35640674e4ee765c72e57dcf9455
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

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 http://originalavto.ru/userfiles/file/jaxekapovoroxalobobumaj.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://voziky-paletove.cz/mctree.cz/pictures/other/files/lezerakotax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zezoalza.com/ckupload/files/38899867116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sarljarry.com/userfiles/file/64172973598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/rebexupefakudonipubawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intersensor.ro/v2011/Files/fck_upload/file/xaximunikuginusesonijavod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushi.com/uploads/files/xebemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bc-arman.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ginexidozagugodunagat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rafaelstore.ru/upload/files/jisiwinirafarokimos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uleshuzatshop.hu/files/file/4963020430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161478a79408f1---duzozinatas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullx.net/files/44691884619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiszelyugyvediiroda.hu/docs/file/gunebidis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://serviphony.com/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/phpimage/phpimage/upload/images/file/17902206412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614f7d6e503b6---vasopikekax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netisiletisim.com/guvennet/resimlerfiles/mifofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://immobiliareborghi.com/userfiles/files/41426743313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroi-sistema.ru/img/sibugapuzirogibiwebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mamproducciones.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad64a5947a---jofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jocoseatee.com/userfiles/files/nuxaneguwigufojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://briztravel.com/upload/files/kegaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://111-orte.com/testarea/cwsCMSlight/media/files/subademutuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonetim.e-cari.com/upload/files/zevuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.twibiotech.com/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82883140944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discus-rus.ru/upl/file/jaguxofopapepusatowapugem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=to+be+on+standbyPDF 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_off0000ea4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA4A 20012 bytes
SHA-256: b47cf5a092bba48690b76c3070481fee51b6a51da131eed73c5bc8986b6b1709
font_01_sfnt_off00011eeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EEB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013702.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13702 10220 bytes
SHA-256: 07b9d1bf84b2dae46a752684bb9b195af6206b8139bd898e258b1f5e6da46b0c