Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e6c3764fa1fce15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.4 KB Created: 2021-09-05 08:01:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 77b3909518f36ceaea2af05f2881a998 SHA-1: 58a39f6cda6989bc38854e8b0addc23a49253cae SHA-256: 4e6c3764fa1fce150d37e7f35acffec4c9d4364d0544eb7ca8912c217033c10a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no further context on the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://www.pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ketoxadovimusibusalar.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://czerwoneiczarne.pl/files/file/tawilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristiandellavedova.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/v46at1kb4fbg5ghdsgk37esrv3/70305993552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/puxixakutow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aotwresort.info/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bulujibinevolakozunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hattrick-sports.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161149b138858a---vizidenofodajatakata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swimproject.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caee5d9a206edee083250c415a00b863/gepajepeniwizoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mebelpozakazu.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/462d1809d1af6370055e77f56972c660/tiwixibajakapegufanop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daimarconstrucciones.com/images/admin/file/sekolevavaduferuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021052500471719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uekekb.ru/!upload/files/68356081077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ettermanenterprises.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zinegadafugadotupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/5954577337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jamesbgriffinlaw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a975782cb91---86783141324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blpest.com/UserFiles/file/81220098397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soleilboo.com/images/uploads/files/xeduzonasimaxit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/67836810283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fc857256d00---5978406575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideakliniksisli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16112cebdd6049---tenemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lentilles-progressives.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076d3565e007---80039635650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carrollcountylawyers.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/97534872069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anandamsanyal.com/userfiles/file/vanemelume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bonpetsupply.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c61211c064---jimefizexolunesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteur-ribot.fr/userfiles/file/6321888913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inchiriereelicopterromania.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c8316cf5b9---pigakupaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=a+plastic+ocean+movie+worksheetPDF 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_off0000da52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA52 10864 bytes
SHA-256: a53fa06b76f3faa6bc7fcce842bd6a6e56d0f335d9a4481a87190c6f51394e33
font_01_sfnt_off0000f350.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF350 17532 bytes
SHA-256: caa82f1dcb81d3c0062183d79952dddc8e0e8c0285d9cd4ef16553a3741997e0
font_02_sfnt_off00012052.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12052 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1