Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f7ec3d84528e5f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.0 KB Created: 2021-09-24 01:26:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: ed9dc39f9a606dd087637635de0adef1 SHA-1: 9333799ad9278b753d1410dc49575ff99392958d SHA-256: 4f7ec3d84528e5f56e0704d12cff54441a06697fa661ebb55e23cce9df1f0b58
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm. Several extracted URLs point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive handoff' heuristic further implies this PDF is part of a multi-stage attack, likely to bypass gateway scanning.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://geometrarontani.it/userfiles/files/9334983030.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://ccenter.ro/userfiles/files/dozokuzogomesow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webursitet.org/Files/file/wuperuxogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsforwarriors.org/userfiles/files/rajigozizikal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161421a44369ca---94538144847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juraganmonyet.com/contents/files/zegidojojugenutikew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-hd.de/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/lopidojetumanikir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ats-dz.com/userfiles/file/62597344716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://win-sonic.com/ck_imgs/files/gumup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prodesign31.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140767b2236a---8306487071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanmih.com/userfiles/file/20210910050859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16140816306901---60847791037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://klingende-zeder.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146b2f1d2bb5---sukujuxuxusoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gourmethousemacau.com/UploadFilesfile///mututufapufogoxujuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.serenissimaservizi.com/files/dukit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dytac.hk/userfiles/35740831996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acelybio.com/upload/files/41881406768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://przychodnia-felinskiego.pl/uploads/editor/file/raramokot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://locoffice.ru/userfiles/file/bimazomajelizobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architectureanddesign.it/userfiles/files/wizabidefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterlootour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_4FE60589745B3257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckysim.com/userfiles/file/17158921441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpetejazz.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbjqgdkqo0e9gqksttqs8f7t7n/fagasiresexivafofiravexik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://needletherapy.eu/upload/file/94870110907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carcarnet.com/home/sandbox/domains/hkdance.tritek.hk/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sojefinamedipidurozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=gallery+crashing+androidPDF 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_off0000c368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC368 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB7A 16356 bytes
SHA-256: 6c4829297b51236cd67d6277670469dbd4696b76ddb3bdbc88de57ed4b8e0d5c
font_02_sfnt_off00010628.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10628 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 49e536bbda632a43beb793915dc5162fcaa01163fcf8db5bceb719ea1f89e7a3