Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f35a0d0b2800f36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-07-18 15:12:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 7468c155540e36a5afa4e00116fe8f90 SHA-1: a86ed00cab33a7434b94b3a8511c3e66cfe0df04 SHA-256: 4f35a0d0b2800f3638ac1ae323cf081f740520451459cf2313db0088843773f0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised CMS upload directories and disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are highly suspicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

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://mrmusicfoundation.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/nd7gra86kr18ned4qoq4o8bd5n/darinozowedu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://logo4you.dk/userfiles/file/81032334929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d6d4a861633696de701542d85ef11477/27128395808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cristalensi.com/public/File/lotenavesofidiviti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kozhikodedeaf.org/admin/my_files/file/xafugotaxanolojekaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b9eaf98b938---50928053077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e3e4722ee94516cb55a9d9720acefe5d/16138704659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bangtaisay.com/uploads/userfiles/file/ritisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stroynerud-sm.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607987caaddab---ramomerupakowirozepajozet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/kexanogubezujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eperon-kochersberg.com/img_db/baxigeporokivaxikomuzejom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aatf734dmr4ll5nn9s1n8n3gv6/83878394286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teaandtiarasottawa.org/clients/e/e8/e8f54e69a7463df9fd0adff13cd8e90f/File/debamikikaxojud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hylyt.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8a697302f544c27d35e408d64a3f5cc/72226278577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/p70sn60sfsqf4u5tk3ilscl9q2/kiwitopufasatikesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bewegeninarnhem.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608af8ece93ec---74328817309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://audiencefertilization.com/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/1885810206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.icslights.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9e8eb6fae18ffc8abbb6eba13c90b63/neluribavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5d8e5e64db---kijoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b611ab8600e---66584369766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnshiyue.com/userfiles/file/20210702183111_1918380186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ca028d429d8---39111395815.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=mole+fraction+of+solute+in+1+molal+aqueous+solutionPDF 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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bafb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAFB 10788 bytes
SHA-256: 8f91c9452215c8e7fb7be61155604271ba0b4ddbf3899d6a465bee64abcb870c
font_01_sfnt_off0000d3e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3E2 16344 bytes
SHA-256: 5cd8a120e106fc2d4fc1855603a636a3ce922decfb1b4d98f17a4a5450337c58
font_02_sfnt_off0000e9db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9DB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_03_sfnt_off000101ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101ED 17660 bytes
SHA-256: 1a5cc1d24a4f67bcca81e37a3024f0450801178d4720864dc53c265c8b9a878c