Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ddc430da7d1c945…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-09-17 22:16:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: de0fe9607cf46759d9dd881639174093 SHA-1: 917a1c48c43c30ed853f4583300e919a6e388463 SHA-256: 4ddc430da7d1c945d4006522d894c5a50f2209bd2e020fe6dfdee3af3ec973d7
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Multiple heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous external links, some pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports this malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://madmojo.com/fckupload/file/95090733422.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://primaria-ciocirlia.ro/media/file/jatobatufudirafego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ilexgold.com/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/60784254512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grani-tonkogo-mira.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e47135d01fd4b476e53ce556ac8b7b85/josositebowubar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuadiemtayninh.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/16859845646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.igescanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/darevivexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parisnordmedical.fr/docs/file/dekusabowijil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cnzhongkui.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/uploads/file/120409558650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aaaxxion.info/images/file/47634032386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avukatwebsitesi.trakyasoft.com/upload/files/15678661569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3handseg.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613bf1507ec9c---47985366437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhxndl.com/uploadfiles/files/kudofipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archiprojektai.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/17612922269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fecirturizm.com/resimler/files/romuzoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5v3ca1ga1ml5npnmuhrluoskt/rujuzopisuzudepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m3hotels.com/userfiles/file/68800046999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f2h63c2.ip4secure.net/upload/files/piwateronopifobalefarex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sensor4you.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/fckeditor/upload/202109/file/rozizali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.otevrenysklep.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rorideb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cyc-catering.pe/disac/userfiles/file/lukeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kimcert.com/E/file/vedujikivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pwmtqatar.net/userfiles/file/jituzaputivelaxozoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133a8a23eb35---jeweparenalenupotidamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=ppsspp+downhill+game+downloadPDF 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_off0000c76d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC76D 10728 bytes
SHA-256: e7089e5659d005a14c0a43424728ac04f8e95cee181c8c6c4326bb817326372b
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA8 17116 bytes
SHA-256: 6be0cf522c3e3c20dee7cdb9155b6ba606584b4fa33e01d4dc161976a67b35dc
font_02_sfnt_off00010be1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1