Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4daf9820171bd312…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.4 KB Created: 2021-08-12 00:34:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 404b4a0bd2b9f0d307f76cb3aaca056c SHA-1: 4f9a68852d9979a75e14388acdd4a8aadc5005ba SHA-256: 4daf9820171bd31210fc375f2bc5ce041db69f15ab47568cccffcfa8113030fa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document 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 distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://shibbirs.com/media/files/mukafefilotuwe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fh99b0e0v9qob7h7tl3799pv5/lusuvabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cerquilho.sp.gov.br/public/admin/globalarq/uploads/files/94076786309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/fewuwuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elsadaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vutabaziwodizoxolezipedof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hgb.se/filer/file/23827808331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/salejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/95562541704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhbanglaw.com/userfiles/file/piwukirerumusisawaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-hold.com/UploadFile/file/20210601074352339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caratow.eu/userfiles/file/12709218034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexedanang247.com/uploads/image/files/65872604503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bclgrouptt.com/userfiles/file/40546002747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160905dc2efd7d---fipelebinuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12564e1aacf9ae2516775ac1a1aa5e48/bevubetotekisefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc88529d808---zusasamaxapanulekafalaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uniqueartzz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/29kokudhrpjmnbne8enhmi7fh0/zumixoverevojapizasuzez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kes-stv.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/76e7039c00e6a67e689ef1fda4316993/36663280011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stellamaris.cz/userfiles/pakodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bronia.org/userfiles/file/wugutalinepovako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lacecinella.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/kekawejiriveriwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah2.com/contents//files/puvivixaxoloramikifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sdyh.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u7tl674eh58290ltc6im2t9hu6/pitiwexaxuzewatasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bechtoldpaving.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32ca9470f619a1fa8aeb8a575e477460/bododaliwuzalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=types+of+assertive+sentencesPDF 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_off00011298.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11298 21324 bytes
SHA-256: 51af1ff3a6d3c1e078cd95dec7f9a9f33976a058018a3083c90fadb8c355c091
font_01_sfnt_off00014b09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B09 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 4a052b17283c9d389e965f0242ee059ff060e3ce19e576cbd8f7b1a52ea037b6
font_02_sfnt_off00016360.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16360 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1