Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d6ed905683150ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.1 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:48:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 20bf9fcc1f1563a101d57c37334ea339 SHA-1: cdda2104596f83761ead877e5c4a0af3e443c5a1 SHA-256: 4d6ed905683150eef03708ab87424113312f5c3f1c4739e56bd2749f8c714547
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO abuse. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links is the primary indicator of malicious activity.

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://www.advids.io/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160db1c4b8710e---pegakilorid.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://netkat.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vasowezeduxelibamuxilim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sce.tw/uploads/files/6109ecf1cb2bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gs-gleichmann.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091bbb4e4116---luxubovibumekeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coffeetuanvang.com/Images_upload/files/keguxagarinitosaxiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kstarsmall.net/userfiles/file///suzuzivixakuninepuduta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.meglobalinc.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608080eabd88c---42697866127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc75.net/upfiles/file/1621380808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandalaconfeccao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074414610095---68159376082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pomocnaukowa.net/Upload/file/42738097854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karinameal.com/imgdish/files/razovaxurudaralelogejose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biocoils.com/img/file/siwegudefori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.analfissur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160824bf7cfbc2---93000773899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hagepoorter.be/files/files/sefarexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feynburg-uhren.de/uploads/70927833639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travelbilet.ru/sites/default/files/file/jutajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yankey.com.tw/demo/public/editor/ckfinder/upload/user_upload/files/xemizawisaxagizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a21bf5a033e---vuwajupudafapavip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevisnews.com/userfiles/27733662156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagandpack.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfacd1ab31824701a754bed9d086f4fd/84599997892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff2qddcr2f5vjsr8k7hlg3472g/98595380198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bora.su/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mowasabotosowin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brahmagnanam.org/fck_uploads/file/tugizubawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elenasteele.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9d007e4258---fifisodenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=conversaciones+cotidianas+en+ingles+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_off0000df06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF06 10892 bytes
SHA-256: 841148a0559ad51de87670ab813a6caeb0c504e4bf721f33d22513ce99b1f14b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f831.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF831 20528 bytes
SHA-256: a5abe9bd7f24df805fe61ce340c0c2fb93c296df6e2bfc4e3ff5b5e597127573
font_02_sfnt_off00012c99.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C99 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1