Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4dc0f6c929648461…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.2 KB Created: 2021-07-16 02:00:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: ea975cb7c51f587666d85ffa28577d88 SHA-1: 5f1476addd292f20bb7a2a17fea5c762c49f3ce6 SHA-256: 4dc0f6c929648461ea20131cdf01e482b9c95b4b56bb3291824db837491242c6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm indicate an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d12e61b4e6763969c63893a56b9ceba0/pekilefefaboxezobak.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/32048124628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dentinale.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a2050c8e8bbd72bbff45d8d93b10f01f/pelusitenigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aamdqpfpr.xn--p1ai/upload_picture/lanomopinilugevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markeishahall.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb43bf9b7c9c7886651bd0653a6753ea/jomewibujikotadasunufek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monarchwinemerchants.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/efed9024f075fe4507fe1b2fd58595ca/34451283169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeugdopdewetenschapsagenda.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a72173951a4---dewabetegotirubazuwabir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petek.biz/resimler/files/junulakosugikuxozasib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/26411371494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ailani.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e226b7be39e8f99fcbe32e31da9e84e6/95530248526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a23d539a066---jivipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asirius.su/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9e589095f84cf6dbe655efa95cc56c0a/rigelitipugelarekapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dgjinhak.kr/DATA/upload/files/202105270216323511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xycrusher.com/d/files/vizewozaxokovezuwenipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahxxzx.com/userfiles/202105/file/dalarofatawetarera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/1671624277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095a715d47ee---96968071780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrdak.cc/uploadfile/files/69726756235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c4dc997e7a2---1653500482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conwaychristian.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079adec7515b---25275804869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082df2097dfb---vujimutojesakulagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jfk1969nola.com/clients/873000/File/39259664071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db3d7a0576---28292539094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://promocionesnma.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44284984487fea5f37c417e8c14e614b/zasapijupipupasotov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mo-space.space/web/img/podborky/files/60800221121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=cinnamon+rolls+and+apple+pie+fillingPDF 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_off0000f225.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF225 18512 bytes
SHA-256: 8da1ea9043d2850f2253000e7a025be93ca111bddede1987ab9d890d7aca199d
font_01_sfnt_off0001229b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1229B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013ab2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AB2 10776 bytes
SHA-256: 9f1f0dd7416906d2ba0c572e362e40ac5fbcb714593fafa0f31b6075275d0de8