Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ef56e4e0815fa88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-08-19 02:34:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: b5e93ec3d0e9fb9541b1b2e7992f4554 SHA-1: 0680f05fad91d3669551bbe1347b1320d94bfaac SHA-256: 4ef56e4e0815fa8890f61425c42abb2e731e50d323e5f0949f7c803973358547
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to numerous distinct hosts, many of which appear to be compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with SEO poisoning or phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://nanumed.ro/uploads/files/65748794836.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://paulbwatkinslaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/mitelemegenamuxerutoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a77bebabb814885fa87dd9f78771ed4e/zatokoxalaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atl-50.com/files/file/bezatusodupabejebupovaxad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1960.com/clients/876325/File/velimowazudebunorifod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0ce3614e79---88347565060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auchli-appenzeller.ch/userfiles/files/5672744822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://timjanen.se/anvandarbilder/53/files/96667361137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idfusionllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08a8f719a25a7bbe6a499386f10e73ad/43271149919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k4dbbppdlq7o8e2dfradfg1ti4/giwasexavogejupotux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pavimentosyreformasferlu.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68859787912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c37dec69e35---81343644834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://songhong.info/userfiles/file/79005949293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantalentjunction.com/milan/media/dewiveziromama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jd7c9uv2pm0k3jqrnob2oprsn4/wurifujejagojaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantalentjunction.com/milan/media/8157855863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkojicin.cz/userfiles/file/nikati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ff971196e80---lumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sacoorhealth.pt/site/upload/file/naletezedadumepevuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sidexsideaudio.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a41c228e610---sidarilipipog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tokstar.com/_UploadFile/Images/file/23239103576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90f66c3257e86eb7908e117b43b94807/119408834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alismobile.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/985a27ae4cb97309a89c16d66d577dbd/sonevozot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+air+conditioning+remote+manualPDF 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_off0000c3e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3E6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBFD 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 2bcfc66adfc3fe1adceea7fa2379dbdf35733dc2f451cfe3f4c09264281145d8
font_02_sfnt_off0000f4ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4EC 16068 bytes
SHA-256: a712a626770b5704719dcc6240d6a46634efabf346beacba6d87b6fface00e01