Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4df9fe9fe6f77e5f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 22:32:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: adbbe5375860e1eed43567282c3d3919 SHA-1: ea192fec691a7990765e55c555982a3e6af183e2 SHA-256: 4df9fe9fe6f77e5f203a98cfe806d6d2b0479ce46b53d91f02f827fa07816b65
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 compromised WordPress sites and disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a downloader or redirector.

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://good163.cn/Uploadfiles/files/lebilawanixuvi.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://hfdjet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6c271c5ba264f5acf1111028d9f8b93b/76292469619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toyotarentcar.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210801_0604E6191934F832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinanxintiandi.com/userfiles/files/zoladujog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridaholidayplanner.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74f758305921f4dd98d7332a6bd60cff/gereputizafotabidesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f3c9db48278---dubefikukuwobojaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c2c54b8ac2---97154844121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/139e5755dca02637e3cbb0aa850b7280/90198688978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ww150002.linebot.net/upfile/files/20210828044836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ducthai.vn/userfiles/file/soleninozazirivumejaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instalace-charvat.cz/userfiles/file/48949257132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.aceitedeoliva.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bd58203645be6f0cb932ce65a661ad1b/33320139200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd8810354f5---22994182020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/24673148915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sblending.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d2ad53cd76---47729768844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2360626572def64f42c3dccd8ea4e9a/69750740846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608dfc268fad7---80455792148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirrorgallery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e934a436639---bifabuwofafonedigefile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paloaltospeakerseries.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9745d0344ca82bdb39502fb6c9d4aed1/86585194358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mr6nuqcrk1ldrhnv454cckb49q/padulisixukomepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.cz/data/cms/file/gipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oreade-breche.fr/userfiles/file/likemekifawewikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/95585000605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bywuf.org/upload/editor/files/13665015990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=kemetic+diet+pdf+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_off0000e2a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2A9 19860 bytes
SHA-256: 7d5ca4ff11efb0839b8e5e523fd199c7b9640bcfcfb3270656bf36394437c775
font_01_sfnt_off00011771.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11771 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 175ac7f19fe3e5cecc8e8841b2d68e9d1b74ca06296e26ce4d46062ec6135faf
font_02_sfnt_off00012fad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FAD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1