Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4db7674d089b7442…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-09-26 19:50:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 7afd53cc7ac6e6c16983b36cef019c94 SHA-1: 14dda31d25235951c75077176cf075a696d520b3 SHA-256: 4db7674d089b7442f6cd0fbdcbedbfce9495ef8096f4b58271a3bce00869ccaf
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to lure users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=audio+notes+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://szintai.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66313326355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://joomlacode.org/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/img.php?file=file/37134123620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilni-kadernictvi.cz/files/file/21892494129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smogy.ru/files/files/75412496074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.org/contents/files/72575737418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schokobrunnen.com/idata/78602425186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----dtbhwhggdaoqfh3d.xn--p1ai/media/file/76501606939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://multi-accueil.fr/ressource/site-image/files/kabidoduzizukifufival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ncfouting.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614dd7d0ee994---28352620287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elcampoeco.org/FCKeditor/file/felunuvanibimuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoman.cz/data/file/vitupumuxezuzenimifenope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://machnik.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vubipimamijabakamaxoset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://de-ko-gmbh.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29829844723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpe-el.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14041749652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imagebeaute.fr/userfiles/file/timafozixixezesatiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ntod28nk2tgpflpnkblvsboq60/99307555157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shimamura-mail-order.com/userfiles/file/21352952479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pelejas.com/IMAGENS/CKFINDER/files/japonoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetogram.com/images/upload/files/zanejowixunijebujinefogan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hengtongrongshang.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210906062127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pleasanton.com/wysiwygfiles/file/11105440394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creationstationdance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b2689558ac---pulebajewaratuwejiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/60544164661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad99748a64---84968331676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jotelek.hu/files/file/xasalusowarivonivu.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_off0000c19a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC19A 20536 bytes
SHA-256: ab777c1dc3f8c95657a8ab3723bbb5c83499c4f1600662fca9a91cd1735f9138
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6D3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010eea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10EEA 10384 bytes
SHA-256: ba3263f2136881c4d3dcf71bce6ba12f95e01bf87b7f73243debb160b6d8c932