Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e7b9742bef85135…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 11:17:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 0fe69f48af0626781f0faeb7087773ea SHA-1: cdd61316f4eb00f05176b9ff45e3fe9e45b31351 SHA-256: 4e7b9742bef851352adcd27700e486d4d89998e4521f1647dae5c6feddccda54
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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://logo4you.dk/userfiles/file/pexewonanepefufiladujal.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://schachverein-marchhoefe.ch/fcsr/news/upload/file/nabowemozegojanewigowegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bountyvacation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d1dbd43d42---vamawugififati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuze-pay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65148160008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jchesr6qe3g0u6um09dg0m9nnc/74823423778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sofia-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/sitig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rothemtour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210903_D917C71C72EDA2CA.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.institutvzdelavani.cz/files/33291169133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.eau-msu.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68986818499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140bf3ca7871---15196976987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonthephunglan.vn/upload/files/31879826627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://showplus.ae/userfiles/files/mubozujibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminentland.com/admin/userfiles/files/23409684730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metapolar.hu/tmp/13843913444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/27833214959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarozlem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kblh8amad0hu3qvi323jb88og6/tirubopebugekoxake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202109031617173117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tobn56.com/UpFiles/file/73112054098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expertsystemgroup.com/file_media/file_image/file/40664872975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koltoztetes-szallitas-lomtalanitas.excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/48389083825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fleshlight-tw.com/userfiles/file/dapuvetogemanemilasukus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koreabulk.net/userData/board/file/jebotasun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=2048+cards+appPDF 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_off0000f605.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF605 17976 bytes
SHA-256: c7771f7e0b3db3b2d00614c93aee129f798145324d1a25f33842601e8c6e72a6
font_01_sfnt_off0001248a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1248A 10348 bytes
SHA-256: b56cda6bc04276db8e0a89af585cff9c544f6a2b79fedf89c823dfbb18437847
font_02_sfnt_off00013c14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C14 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1