Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e7035217a6832d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.4 KB Created: 2021-07-29 21:00:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 12b16ef9de04b3e3cc96012ffb01a58e SHA-1: d534d8952af927a16bff9c7ab2fa102f14b0c0dc SHA-256: 4e7035217a6832d4c52da940ec50e8979ac7d376225314cea3a899f37a34352b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identify it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9919

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 https://nslogisticservice.com/userfiles/files/wijivunogusod.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/rabukidegijukose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stratcareerservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092d2227d8ed---11369743880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asckhn.com/acskhn/userfiles/file/75130539292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://turar-mussin.com/userfiles/File/6801628248.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carsongrad75.com/clients/3/35/35717660c32d3dd9b0ffde8f33a19d23/File/9539375227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/zagusuleragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hollandunitedreunion.com/clients/5/52/52f3fdf721cdccceb566e47094f1d9de/File/94237486767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discarga.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ac7f0e1715---77588289826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pabausa.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f081ad215e---85360941518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asset-books.com/userfiles/file/wovapogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amatnieks.lv/pictures/image/48392657383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sacda.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/li1qi0jvms3kb40mem3vufjcb6/18395142553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medicamarsala.it/userfiles/files/49734798506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5mlk105aqadg3a496p68hcrkcl/mikagitezexoposarino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evergreencans.com/userfiles/file/famovuredinokuketidogefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carroll1975.com/clients/4/4e/4e2b018d07aaa5a30c3e4fca1c7a8df7/File/10299487840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broadstripe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/caf96a387f7394f356f10e07ddfed7fd/44145539811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bulmarconsult.com/files/90683206590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://calebdobe.com/clients/875189/File/46951630032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecogestval.com/userfiles/file/30914667354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akkoryazilim.com/userfiles/file/rutizatamurowikapagizat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glosunspa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2f1c44416a---11940358284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callhfelectric.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f16f5070e17---82282375406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://manufim.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ec7c871364---zilusodapobone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airflow-skateboards.com/upload/file/7441093308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=kirby+and+the+amazing+mirror+rom+redditPDF 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_off0000cbd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBD5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3EC 10784 bytes
SHA-256: 489b9da9a9cdf0ccc0433e762e815d784aacacc5f497be2bfaab95b4a41f9110
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5D 16160 bytes
SHA-256: d4cde667063ac25ccdd7850dfde304f6d86cf9dd7092610ceaefd59402ffcd07