Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4dfa0bf7679947c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2021-09-01 21:34:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 4ca1006d596020e765ded50b79f5d677 SHA-1: 65eeed7681353f1a01fb4b07abd75b42cb032f7c SHA-256: 4dfa0bf7679947c89d75e12d3e206f2b7cfe0dc16f60d1f53283d6475ff3a00c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing analysis of its specific content, but the presence of numerous external links strongly supports the link farm attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9972

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///36734043909.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.frankreich-ferien.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a91a4821b3---23424432131.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://psystems.gr/Administrator/uploads/userpics/OutPostImages/files/50041027997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ktgroup.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuxirozaker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/fuxaselixiwizogudiribasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesnowmanicecream.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96002042690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sumangold.net.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/s51pipglq8pv1ardlcsaatc902/dobinupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambres-a-la-ferme-plouzelambre.fr/userfiles/file/91537957603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609eb86704de8---97325529571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608bbdc72c097---gudisojig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nusantarabet4d1.com/contents//files/gulan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e24065e27---xeteka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kme-kme.cz/files/file/2751190908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iideree.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160da46331f8ad---tisakuguguxuriwidekaxewug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jollytime.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31d044438551a52431f72165781f5637/45307468848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f5d7bc7eca9---zubuwidarujedudagukumanaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiks.info/public/file/91778684845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160cfd4e381bba---44358688047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160995b47260ff---tabaxazawosovitaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ambredore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ccfcac5e9---depipobotufobufer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mg001.cn/upload_fck/file/2021-5-19/20210519002645405820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qtjdb.com/UploadFile/2021/05/13/file/20210513_003312_199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fd1e7648efa---xogevizoviwofuzaboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokerprod.net/userfiles/file/litadolezuxubididefetoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixmyhelicopter.com/project-new/christianbook/upload_images/file/8450515444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=export+gridview+to+pdf+in+asp+net+without+itextsharpPDF 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_off0000ea6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA6F 19408 bytes
SHA-256: 240f3416ff0461dcab0e9520b63f991d56b4181348a1eac1f84c78f52f6fab44
font_01_sfnt_off00011d6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D6F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13586 11068 bytes
SHA-256: 401009e8d02f04e30e245d395c4dbff694323ce98cf1783a66a8850fc4dcd2a5