Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e656fd5adf657fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-19 07:21:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 39b2a183580c3f12e59400c7d8807c81 SHA-1: 75b02d90f86409e1e2f41c8f55460021f214af61 SHA-256: 4e656fd5adf657fa495d6a2df8d591bbd3969c9d85afe0b5eccf5ad8dd34c034
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, 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. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=nova+launcher+version PDF link annotation
    • http://teamwork-poetschke.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/foser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togeltop.net/contents/files/74849309444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oroblupiscine.it/userfiles/files/xeninu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pokebarslo.com/uploads/files/46704871026.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jockmurray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d0a385b532---rezuvenerida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotarybrescello.it/userfiles/files/xuxarimafigepexidapesopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullgame.hu/uploads/files/64291557491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekstilkentrehber.com/upload/ckfinder/files/77258827482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaa1acmiejxr6d7fg.xn--p1ai/data/files/gekaluzamitoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orkhaconstruction.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6647dag8avpdrb6vjbj1fvrmqg/42546241924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/zupirejefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrasvilla.es/uploads/files/kesuxajufenoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://karaari.leaddeehub.com/userfiles/files/fujunaribamiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dd11dc0aca---21233736525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deniz-sogutma.org/img/userfiles/file/kamugurivopupurufoji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gingerwooddesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613c477688edb---mudikodupabumimupeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliguoriarchitetto.eu/userfiles/files/75791039219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambcavallon.eu/userfiles/files/43747483575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cancercareresearch.com/userfiles/file/wixojibikilemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofupingame.net/calisma2/files/uploads/janasonenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urduhadith.org/survey/userfiles/files/95432741639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5d5182db0f4312e77069e3c8632d9e00/82651101736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://penmypoem.com/new/admin/uploadfiles/file/93941537928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pcccmiennam.com/media/ftp/file/95990128151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profisystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133ddf3cc1b2---12775671615.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_off0000da00.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA00 21648 bytes
SHA-256: 3565d99a85432dcc520fc223ebe0c4e0cb6c06ba593f59b79be5a021b149504a
font_01_sfnt_off0001133b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1133B 10372 bytes
SHA-256: be271386d48d94fe067858ee18685f40d93003f900267420c0f90c5fe2e41775
font_02_sfnt_off00012aa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AA5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1