Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4edbf6c1c0847d7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-04 05:14:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0a3f14dc4f5e87b60added5ee639a175 SHA-1: cfeae9e87a690b3737ccbb45c7fdd2ad476a999b SHA-256: 4edbf6c1c0847d7f1b223bdfac82980d7fb5f6648625af3daaff1ba737703665
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload storage or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM' point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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 http://neoclassicalmansions.com/uplds/file/figitapi.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ranaghatpchsschool.org/userfiles/file/6833599598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roland-toys.eu/userfiles/file/bomoxuduso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tocgia247.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/neoh81ibav9ph0qbgldsi4fh1i/31854027636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canvasations.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uu7d5slca2re90tu600or5lft6/kirisarawulolibuvugixewe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://subventionsbetrug.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ejmahbecenbuuh1oct5qcn1j21/sitipekipifurujoxoraxezax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nestroots.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/chogqje3ipaobpc310m7n4jhb7/85765745432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e021f1b238---sexujazozaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kavernoklub.com/campannas/file/52837115241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://colegiosantarosa.com/uploads/imagem/file/54193860327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivfnna.gr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/faf374a70bafe9fe1ae8a1eadf44691e/65733321747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jajugroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/malidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yonezawanet.jp/units/24250/zcycom/files/vibubimojasisibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acecaalcoy.com/userfiles/file/zijamasenibenisar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thunderstar.cn/userfiles/file/20210506073413919603736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geyikkimya.com/userfiles/upload/file/36092876528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bergfin.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1675df948---80723624619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cpro.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608423616ff2a---tefuraludagizevema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexanderkanevskyartistbiography.com/clientMedia/file/zatoxisiferaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/FevRqgeaUVY/uplcv?utm_term=mac+pdf+editor+softwarePDF 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_off0000e4ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4AE 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 05451ad2fc19a0624feb891668c050b963945776267cfb06834d47d30a80a5d5
font_01_sfnt_off0000fcf1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFCF1 18708 bytes
SHA-256: ed5f0192920a706e7c542d7b9515241d690d3256a5882301644b4f82ec6d0391
font_02_sfnt_off00012d3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D3C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1