Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e92d73c9c4e0575…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-13 03:18:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e6e7c1b2d6dc6d63a56cdf2613038b82 SHA-1: 9f0e76ed8438cc3a484b087b1d181b345cd49dab SHA-256: 4e92d73c9c4e0575df896238430047059e2b4b61bf87d9e6af08116d1483ec74
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the document functions as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://ceccarmehedinti.ro/userfiles/file/48963779533.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ijieet.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kojesimodadavomowetod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elite-nails.pl/Upload/file/69301183862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://primeasset.hu/fileok/file/20500343077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.immiflex.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139dd7da8337---70124182929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hzkontejnery.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kawonetowolekeralojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ed-web.cz/userfilesfile/dimafin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.andimoda.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a0fc0da0fb8425529bc938bcec317d77/nabirapotorokobifavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraya-shop.ru/upload/files/75181138033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pm-property.pl/userfiles/file/giwabamiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/53648946633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/85097540756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urdu-hadith.com/survey/userfiles/files/13616907307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pactolous.hu/upload/file/vaniwenifaranaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compsult.net/userfiles/file/24516372848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tunesistudio.eu/userfiles/files/46348221400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://m2m2design.com/userfiles/67514176725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwon.com.vn/app/webroot/uploads/files/gotitiropubixig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.espymetcalf.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613269637257d---94040811052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--66-6kc8bfmkmjd.xn--p1ai/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/72063900869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factblogs.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/wewajirig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serrechevalier-skifun.com/imagesfile/92622069258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lovesushiscv.com/uploads/files/15141676227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://union.travel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vukilinanafota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=lords+mobile+kingdom+wars+mod+apk+downloadPDF 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_off0000b7ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7CA 10912 bytes
SHA-256: 6b6655b464d043730d00915e631f72888c81e375093fae98fd383595a614fa1d
font_01_sfnt_off0000d09a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD09A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e8ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8AC 16348 bytes
SHA-256: 5eca2d16321f30da33f185700a7f483e47eae7c3b27a4e5a3687285fd897b28d