Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e6c374a2cec5e69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.6 KB Created: 2021-09-06 20:30:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 03f02c69c1086b245a0555e576330c65 SHA-1: b17eb0a60d6219da379aa00dc49a11ca5b1eaf0d SHA-256: 4e6c374a2cec5e690d9ca6d5ce9ac958e0a8edd9849b860cfe73d9c76f6c9a49
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate maliciousness, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of multiple embedded URLs points towards an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://dutchfansitenetwork.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/6290758974.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://taskentcompany.com/userfiles/file/83332407553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a636a1e446b---nilorusowelagusijutedow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaktutzhit.by/uploads/files/68773692374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepsforstarlight.org/clients/c/c6/c668404594a1c08d975ab50c7bec58f6/File/14649022867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xtra360.net/campannas/file/67979212169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toananhmedical.com/uploads/files/45127799312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/46809747510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vozilasavozacem.rs//files/worubavivawefukug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamslakeband.org/userfiles/file/wolawakuduxuvebipul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myblindz.com/fck_user_files/file/rodusifubusogaxilotajuber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thetachikappasigmaalumni.org/clients/5/56/56ac51e2ee760b54d3ff8b7d53c877b7/File/19564665744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroisvias.ru/userfiles/file/tonafeweripavelirewojowof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamxaydung24h.com/upload/files/dofubaxidiruv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toromecanicorodeo.com/files/57318459458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailygiasi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/siguwotidogokore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/838ada1e6d60f3ed6048661d5c67e0de/37835873171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mextro.de/upload/files/77031492718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunargrup.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vpbrrj3jj5rn4ekpu5662jcuo0/95845318451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestrecycledautoparts.net/images_i/file/xanijexomolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc39224d7f110886caa77e8d72a8abf2/89829063247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://argentinaproduct.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/36180130257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamiuniquelimo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ec9ae82205c---7933018407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.getfitcrew.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f39d1c01668---16405909997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidcosz.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5uu7lscb2gpuu8rlkh8e7s1kd/rogubirojexazugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=armed+robbery+definition+pdfPDF 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_off0000dfce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFCE 17448 bytes
SHA-256: b1c1ba5efb4c93a41787b93e3c3a7e08fe9cc13540de6be67d452385821fae2c
font_01_sfnt_off00010cfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CFD 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 0ad222b3e52ea6fac18277978acf7523571dda00139771f42052744e83445bea
font_02_sfnt_off000124ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1