Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ec1c18e9cd2d76b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:43:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: aad5578fc5d5c116db94b4ddd2fa8c51 SHA-1: ab0a9d5076af16f53014ec62bf027532f257f5aa SHA-256: 4ec1c18e9cd2d76bcc54e6b134b04fe40ed2642cc933b775f048be3f7c7b6156
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic 'PDF_URI' firing further support the attack pattern of directing users to external, potentially malicious, resources. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=freestyle+libre+usa+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16121d308d24ab---segopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mingmitrcoffee.com/user_img/files/pesef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://speedwayinfo.hu/uploads/file/78461483767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ya-ke.cn/admin/upload/mufekigixibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dentaltaxpros.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cdda5240e1cbbacb955beedb7640c50c/46575025774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinikankara.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073062980444---zixiranemejinozinuvavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xanbiente.de/userfiles/file/kozivagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a9647f0bf3f---78129118515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://growmytruck.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f8cdf6757b51ef9cc08731b23ba8c94/60002026054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hit-air.pro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21264234250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/fekezejevamupawage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chubsorn.com/file/files/nopilirijexalesidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annandale1963.com/clients/69704/File/85216515489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nationalcardsolutions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b92df677603---34661431035.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alfainstal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094582a9bb0f---18492743948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a73b62d8c7---gitegatotizewomiwawos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijz0c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94343543074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://com123.vn/uploads/file/33475716664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091ca154f5f9---xigumolotajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/585c88968a7540c59e5a69f60e8a2dcc/gozogunezel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colorsoftexas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/uploads/zesodosus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aan.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pimarejuzowadoronuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vishalsahni.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wapodukitafipesulominonuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sethhukumchandschool.com/userfiles/file/xujiwerudevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agilitynd.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e6ed95f4a8f7121c3c509f486ca24bf8/46573176608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keluargamimpi.com/contents/files/54158445009.pdfIn 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://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_off0000d96d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD96D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f184.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF184 10480 bytes
SHA-256: c134613a08048d8cff650de7adcf6c62d07dfa0203e2eb113b898dbce002a4c8
font_02_sfnt_off00010953.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10953 18260 bytes
SHA-256: 3030f750a5caf6dbf5841cc4a007401446d96a6c047a4bed0a908e9539018e5f