Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fc90472af15dbda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-20 20:54:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: cba917096df98fe36abb6f72d3f1e8a9 SHA-1: 3c0f1199f76f08bba3f1c397e46ce00a10c0f480 SHA-256: 4fc90472af15dbdaf701d210e677a2db052aa44b7c9bac8852bab124b656926e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting or compromised CMS upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://lasfyy.com/uploadfile/file/20210905165803590.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://artgallery.devctn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24210720212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maurinet.com/userfiles/file/83722276336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knoxvilleremembers.com/media/14053244676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lncxjzxxw.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-6/20210906122026228008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gpba.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9452836805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weishinclinic.com/uploads/files/202109180958094576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativitagh.com/pevron/www/img/file/45102915790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dinhviht.com/images/newtech/files/nuwodizilesinomoboso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metnar.pl/web/uploads/files/wijusinagaroralexemejob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qdjshg.com/files/file/lawazofofawubelasexetobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yilip.net/userData/board/file/92235754081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rjiminfra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b03c157aace81b5578c3f3d2231528de/55517318749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karlsbach.de/userfiles/files/64661408948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leads-bd.org/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59644992948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://botosani.ro/img/uploads/file/zijumovatatapezero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cape-electronics.com/media/file/9158711259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megatex-plast.ru/pub/file/gegosuwazuwupusab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunaryem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5gu7h8jr8iptbhermoena04pt4/refisepanodumonufobesetun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ithalattagarantibelgesi.com/resimlerfiles/73414050426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinalabware.es/d/files/4265855886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouldersudbury.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eea6e9be1f---kegogunotabatajexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://esteticarcare.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e9f87190df0ad8ad01236817e409827c/gabotarevawofolaxoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartraoptics.com/fck_filemanager_upload/file/267694934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=sling+android+tvPDF 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_off0000d46f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD46F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC86 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 9c0e4b4ee74fe097a366202b834ab47f7d4bff2c25d3e85fb578197350e890a6
font_02_sfnt_off0001037c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1037C 17608 bytes
SHA-256: 1d2f3042fd3289ef60d89685bfab5f7ad253211e6dbc340e85b63ffd74ca4f85