Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4dd2e9b60ddae241…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-08-05 20:10:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: e4d668143c8f4e4f0712b91c2ac7e4f2 SHA-1: 03d87ce63aa0ebe4b58ef86bfcb04effbda6c076 SHA-256: 4dd2e9b60ddae2419c11c97fa3f08ce7b40340eb6b7c867eb7a1e87812239da0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest an attempt to exploit users through deceptive links, aligning with spearphishing tactics.

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adobe+illustrator+cs3+portable+software+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://szrealty.net/uploadpic/2021-5/file/2021051106020673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tourpon.kr/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210616_E2E3C92186E683E8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geriatriccarenewjersey.com/userfiles/files/wakiroworeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sola-brothers.com/userfiles/file/petijemuridixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bykevin.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0fd65a3d2fd06f02746de8a25b510993/32909723268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2cdqjp5qftro8182lcf5punil5/sexivopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avis-medical.ma/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a51e4fc8b151743af1556a70659095c8/41875462422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ba88f522dccf5c19581419b6a0f4de14/mokumaxapeserifuwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://andhimazhai.com/images/files/jesozereval.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smeclassof1987reunion.com/clients/37165/File/34000203523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trichynext.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ae24cdfa41cf43f521083347796f3fb6/dirovonunonategux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.endthestigmacounselling.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k76ollldtes6614nkcgqd35coa/joninizileneselinivos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cephedanismani.com/images/pages/file/51761734048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elmiraclassiccountry.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lq305fep61p2cav2de61piahv2/vidigoboduketazavak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vestol.bg/files/file/26931997737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/segewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-newsletter.com/ckupload/files/56810207058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vankouwenenmastop.nl/UserFiles/file/kunajefimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggmtc.net/userfiles/files/gajukiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avenirpourtous.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097befad01fb---xosotolazufavogoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.syah.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd6598e9609b39b078aebbfa22d5aeaa/62938941068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webgirls-studio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076bcb6a5a00---wukumiwodevoxoxezovam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1df51779fb3c7d6bd444df0e54b5da9d/89865769919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mariellatriolo.it/public/file/tawitajewelonuzugufoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argumentua.com/i/file/22530716793.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_off0000f2bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BD 16436 bytes
SHA-256: cf88312bf9dd4316dd3ee402191f0f616a9bd4a7520e792fc8213d99e055abe2
font_01_sfnt_off00011d9a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D9A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000135b1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135B1 11092 bytes
SHA-256: d272e268a37f65c397e10f19aee52351c493efee55cb89284b879a3cac3e0b19