Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4dd43f95410d5df4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-08-04 20:45:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: cdb8903973b62556466b26af7f640c3a SHA-1: 9c1e11f602854db8704dbc1bd29a2e76ae0851dd SHA-256: 4dd43f95410d5df494cdf693a44ac2f5e382d8d30ec10b7091c5292f4a15c984
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to websites that appear to be compromised CMS uploads or hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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 http://studiopignotti.it/userfiles/files/jugorokufarorixalanubituj.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://quick-thailand.com/images/uploads/file/5442554398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/terexudedal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://birnagarcollege.in/userfiles/file/gufutusekidema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609899e825c9a---53167815164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac3f52d0b0c---31734263354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archpiudue.com/userfiles/files/24243833593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://icon-studios.com/userfiles/file/67346192138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cded819614---76773859821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba5324ba41---rerosixobegizubowur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecef-groupe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ui7b03m01118bubvrp9lnu3871/6250189328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariailmarzocco.it/userfiles/files/pelozupulon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/chrkarqbnu0svkqq79l8nonnhu/67209826261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hum-lucknow.org/test/fckeditor/file/20219227905.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaandtiarasottawa.com/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/18978285220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.afamaresme.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa8b09af020---kegexera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-31/20210531161316456930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verlauf-ekb.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66373238329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/05f7953d1e6d9790409a699c2261ea8c/64694136316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maspacientes.es/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cmmke900ks0c4l035b0r1u11c2/pavuvevukeka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bringem.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3dcc675f0bcee35d94e32157d148ae26/20061058135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichihr.com/uploads/news_file/64216210235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f7799267d4---91715217425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+do+a+hypertrophy+workoutPDF 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_off0000fd14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD14 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011526.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11526 16912 bytes
SHA-256: 56796ee92c271602b1ff78fc81ee07db21d6409dcb280af5e3e0c44880412a3a
font_02_sfnt_off00014150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14150 10460 bytes
SHA-256: fab8893f0ade42061b99e24fc5db8516490f376699e84a3346b45ac208819873