Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4dc295de31c09e4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-06-11 05:02:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 813a6a82f06293dfe6e2bc86e72c9591 SHA-1: 3fd9684ab822102746dfc83be974cc383d498d67 SHA-256: 4dc295de31c09e4d4a5d2b6e1557504d5d7b564fb148541c2bda41b40139ccaa
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for file conversion, likely to trick users into downloading further malicious content or revealing sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=convertir+mxf+a+mp4 PDF link annotation
    • https://parisautotravel.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/561jenpeou2g9q3qse1m3mv865/35475335192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agnieszkapawlik.com/userfiles/file/lawanupula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772f450aed3---31908044342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4ca7cd570f500a8d89041abb6775c038/puzif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autosoftware.company/autoresponders_images/files/laxizupezoguf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160995316709ee---fawegaraxojawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vitrierbxl.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c723f13cda---69076455964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jointrilogy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e10ae57fc1---45702289615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-clining.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/215aa4e73f257f9d449cd6057fec1f47/suzovapuzeleluruxisag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0er384olth7oqd660r40qgn0oo/goteximifebipagami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://its-bulgaria.bg/files/file/73879705433.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092530db1a8f---nimitizobovorulokoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085af404e215---dokig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://verkoop-je-wagen.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ce613a5521---77188225714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d895fb2230---tuwetuwafovitepepasup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://liniagdanskzydowo.pl/files/44318629908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://whitelightdesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0464d0794b6bd115d06a4287f8de662e/jogez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://husvagnsexpo.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a73ff07c48b---97461506273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c4c27f27859151bd2465c13ec40c3ef/99098356434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f1d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1D6 4956 bytes
SHA-256: 269b96382a73955310da517660b2b73512d86c5ff3ca4a02f80960ec73bf2cda
font_01_sfnt_off000102a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x102A9 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 5cde6d4fa01d7612abd0f301df80030fb3fe2ed2ee0f9c8c28c696d142be4e45