Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4edf9c947aa1c238…

MALICIOUS

PDF

95.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 06:14:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 49a83a6447f109e3d4176747ec4b5add SHA-1: 08c88f3a05491d6e123c7f640b838bbf6631665c SHA-256: 4edf9c947aa1c238a4181726dfe14a9620a30bb0ac31f33fc3e84d9ae89462ea
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics reveal it contains numerous links to compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to external URLs, likely for phishing or to download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=all+in+one+english+class+9+answers
    • https://microfocus-realize2020mea.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0caed535cfbccc845e877f2c6310a984/14603085011.pdf
    • http://mygotour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210529_C099633754D830A3.pdf
    • http://beijingxinzhi.com/userfiles/file/20210605022722_211900412.pdf
    • http://www.predoisiasociatii.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160775e9d692ab---vivoxudeduxagojirovatok.pdf
    • http://tsrmmessina.it/userfiles/files/livisurinad.pdf
    • https://numberonerevolution.it/file/vules.pdf
    • https://teplitsyoptom.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/910a8beccea8363f7019ff317019c173/mamilow.pdf
    • http://gopherandsquirrelcontrol.com/admin/images/file/76874546183.pdf
    • http://www.advokat.com/app/webroot/img/fck/file/13508365759.pdf
    • http://eltonltd.ru/sites/default/files/uploads/jikigezufegit.pdf
    • https://www.saenger-ohg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adbb8dd9705---93093451210.pdf
    • http://andreagarciam.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c889ef2f610---67076760619.pdf
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/34767296098.pdf
    • http://kleiberit.ru/files/file/97332483373.pdf
    • http://vincityhomes.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h63rt2p0sd6gjvac3b28pt7gt5/rotolisozerunixij.pdf
    • http://chromowane.com/userfiles/file/39730807130.pdf
    • https://cls-toronto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/87cae424ea120c7303a7f8349d7950a7/47434606992.pdf
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9b2e203715---vokijakisafapokugeb.pdf
    • http://nessium.net/userfiles/file/91524080637.pdf
    • https://cambodiaangkorhomestay.com/userfiles/file/68491507265.pdf
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c51035d616939f7958251ce06f7d003/19150569799.pdf
    • https://smilepath.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/92ed7a951400e493998d567451d893d1/pawaxogosenowubef.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000111fb.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x111FB 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012a12.bin
e2a16fa221f24b6a9fcd4c4b881e2bd70e8e0bc15dbc528e85b3eb725a476414
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A12 10648 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014279.bin
ebc32b44d47930ec9b3e2a57cdd7e027a3ec04ddd004c243ecf3f6930516ae65
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14279 17312 bytes