Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4dc76efef8acf047…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.1 KB Created: 2021-09-01 10:09:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 029967b49279746f36082d6149f85f61 SHA-1: 3300a6deebc7655e2cce8cf4561eb2c681e5b884 SHA-256: 4dc76efef8acf047daf7af3a58b16a4b12e705d7777660bf654580ea36fdedf2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to compromised websites and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=why+is+art+so+valuable PDF link annotation
    • http://business-plan-capalpha.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/bewuwawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://446888.top/userfiles/file/22462784378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca300724ef6---10909732328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.comperat-89.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wepezukadejotuxolon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bong-dem-long.org/upload/editor/files/miwuvesiwedoxanep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bettenbaehren.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b76ec013c3---vejewepitufazezepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bridalchapel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765c5e7291d---mirusoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://transilvaniafishing.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/gidofirozowedelekap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dacsanmyhuongbeti.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/2336540260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sasalidayanisma.org/uploads/file/dupug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquafilling.com/userfiles/file/lufesuwusabubap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://refpecsbelvaros.hu/kepek/files/11042502066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ad0702e830e15361e7068f65ff615c0/vukaromiforexubanami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fanns768sthhf252dshmbt1f22/bixewutilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deadclan.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab893a0e22f---pimem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinyardim.com/calisma2/files/uploads/78075992261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dichvutot99.com/webroot/img/files/zixusobulateledegobabaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa0854972637d36b3e9f9a4c5bd2e451/5432706823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ctsgroups.asia/images/file/6626094277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advancedbusiness.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a3c87de0c4ded737ba4ca84a90764eb5/59310976771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071bc9a05b39---vizamiravalejum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://simon-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/60610149547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://georgiamusicpartners.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/44d743c02409775450c2d1160792e085/92130340258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deewanalarab.com/up_imgs/sorasuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0b3a352a9---tarel.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_off0000ef8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF8B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001079d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1079D 18600 bytes
SHA-256: 0ea2fc8de0cf8b38cc2ccc1614d130d2e8635c7b3db9fb9d65206bf867a7b7de
font_02_sfnt_off00013812.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13812 10516 bytes
SHA-256: c520d77a3c3a07c0e71aafaa09eb2dcfee72394a8bdcaf8f77ab40c902180dca