Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4de8d6324d975ee8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

134.9 KB Created: 2021-09-10 15:13:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: e532ab6fd9a441109f8eb518149c8a58 SHA-1: b1a29bbfe36aab85f49959eeff5a055d2c14ec67 SHA-256: 4de8d6324d975ee8e899bee27f9b0424f66ce24d6f6fb7b5d02de0101b8e611d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9984

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=3+player+fighting+games PDF link annotation
    • https://lifesmart.lifesmart.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13210642021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134c6f4b5c4d---11250592550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.drserapkagan.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aq2sfpq5f4o2eihqdm2r2nm65c/19577157693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketoanaca.com/uploads/image/files/radumopideviwajolixixize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stephankeppel.com/userfiles/file/koforekupezogelavemuwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://humanlitech.com/files/files/vojizulejavojevusunij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/fojedusim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://engroupe.ca/aym_image/files/73573948152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://associatedreclaimed.com/userfiles/files/guninixumodejobezot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbc.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18148392047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalatranslation.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dj4gjcduk3a3irfqmo9fqcio61/59675628405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jager-ig.tw/up_photo/file/66382692536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chicagohalo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f1e4970f66---vegasojuwilago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zh-huaxun.com/uploadfiles/files/moxafozesexojijinupivisut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d8c451de74fe17997ccb76503364daf/22711243246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personal.sut.ac.th/chantira/port/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jegalovaxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fine-cottage.ru/userfiles/file/mepare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remoteyourstaff.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gupolemiwiduporile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krupongs.com/images/file/ginojevumixudulupitixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daydreamspin.com/userfiles/file/zavosiworeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161305501df658---kumanigopilob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://linpus.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/50793240197.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_off0001a8a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A8A1 19740 bytes
SHA-256: 70413f294078e63e43771702e1817cd94853c931e4a3bac663941dbe07506cbe
font_01_sfnt_off0001dc74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DC74 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001f48b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F48B 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 1e835c454c70df1a3aed552db18984b958ee7628fa1f2a6205fe09c2b1dcf9e0