Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e9c989585962a37…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.5 KB Created: 2021-06-13 04:00:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 2ab87430145a53da84f210b0876e6956 SHA-1: bcbcd84fa6ffae49623d46fd405f110ab2f7eff0 SHA-256: 4e9c989585962a3746d8fd152e9c492b5bc9da17766165326928d79484da2c2a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+difference+between+simple+past+and+past+perfect PDF link annotation
    • http://anhuicrew.com/upload_fck/file/2021-4-30/20210430110002152097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hostingalani.com/calisma2/files/uploads/75338459328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chiataiec.com/userfiles/Proj_Name//files/60387700932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/sonamumuferosukoguvad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086b5e919a54---33845307725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limpiasol.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160786bd1f245d---wenivofuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/70669109213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zap-interactive.com/uploads/files/45052124288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c2mag.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3298d24276---xajalowefapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://airshow-bg.com/file/lepubex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplospectr.ru/images/files/54571150016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mclarenpress.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609049ea3dd11---44820404443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab0fb78464c---numiwiduvusitozuzotarana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/87601936328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a43cb1508c---72585467683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dishdivvy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1535cf6d4f8c7ef7cdf09f47c48fb19/38933680344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thepetrichortouch.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8k92hrfo0p3oi62i03bu6178d0/85984882553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baptistenhardenberg.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608458b4827f1---rexodedulifusulet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC6F 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 4483109190f8954b73dd9d3de567c3ade1fc181a9163472adb01e45339cf3408
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF44 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 61421be0e534595a43a52ead4c56dcdb111bd618b3247681eeb892c2485bce50