Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f5e67ea93297d0e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-01 09:17:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: bc5d3bbe90d93c296a1baae72f787da3 SHA-1: 5405816798369b514954f3a40f2b9b269623efac SHA-256: 4f5e67ea93297d0e116da968f060212f47ff8137b3ba7b5c4e7080e9417a2fc2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the heuristic findings.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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://bowenpainter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac973cb2810---relimug.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://camping-du-lac-dijon.com/fichiers/22567842032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eliteswimmingpoolsinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4a3p7c3db5akpur7eidc4m8nq2/10364802865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akapacha.com/userfiles/file/82348537208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lookkorea.net/userfiles/file/67334344740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humantouchtranslations.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1/160848325f1914---luvakavuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160834c2fb56a4---72121060310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viaterrestre.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a599ed8fc59---surezivegexomawag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c98f44c0b29---39469996490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dyglas.com/userData/board/file/pamigak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekachaiguitarist.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/19417507533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jrpst.pl/userfiles/file/5183237569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://askopenko.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f331648423d07260c176fce594171df6/vevumapun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happycustomerservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/105bf7730c29256570c31b4a8f913d8b/66674815044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goref.ru/files/file/dupijemuxeniboxufumab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allprintusa.com/admin/images/file/70832898591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/61627117147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coxfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/56/566bc9ad745482f371977770c3e6b383/File/74744172693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d5cc3d3eaf---41273013349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608d78050aac1---4264611834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bridgesonthepark.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aba007d6152---7175119152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xaydungphongphu.com/uploads/files/48609975827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rmissio.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607caa8eb87ba---1781037047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=3+ply+roofingPDF 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_off0000ea9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA9C 10164 bytes
SHA-256: 4dfbed4ece075673071917439a933e58f74c911acb2574efe300b5daa8f8ab45
font_01_sfnt_off0001015d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1015D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001196f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1196F 16860 bytes
SHA-256: c2701e1b55affd33a8a575881e0ba7acbeb4d8dc532f19278a54a05b1030fcdc