Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fd4de9133c129b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-08 08:24:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 9885cc2651497ecc2849f87e9e2fa943 SHA-1: f3be2c911d0120e065d70bf7af50111e8b3b5658 SHA-256: 4fd4de9133c129b0ceeb69586fefa8ac4245df8361de631507ecd5fc0773c4c8
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many hosted on compromised websites, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics point towards an attempt to exploit users via external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://www.orarestauratorisaf.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7fd6a67900---setib.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16089c91cc457d---leroj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cald-lighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3e78754396c7e91d7a2d10e9c630f06a/lawuleg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skidubravy.sk/spravca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vulufexafagagodunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miaousland.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/movoluge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amesonsofallen.org/clients/53156/File/10228305227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tantusmarina.com/UserFiles/file/xijadotizozetojusodonaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sodigital.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160976e31424d3---japefuzebemalugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aventura-agence.lu/userfiles/files/bonadatarogonejadebefaxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/37547200455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://combatkuntao.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34268324259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.shopveriamici.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/daqmdmt79b7lac3a6v84ee2686/sepaxusolatixulepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidolamerica.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e7eca4af35623be76884dac37661ad7b/11904613473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bachova-terapia.sk/images/file/30911627137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://playgametoday.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ab21cb22e847030f38be32ebc436676e/30610571070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edu-mate.kr/_UploadFile/Images/file/62339388984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sherylrobphotos.com/clients/56056/File/63384330547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekolojikweb.net/upld/userfiles/file/38667406623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rlponder.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/19524623960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benly-carson.com/product/files/xutewudituwonid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stavclearing.ru/upload/files/83416759845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.simplythebestevents.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc3ddd7d9b1---94194892896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://realimpacto.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a74883c29d8---xijofununi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://avvocatoandreabruschi.it/userfiles/files/99348492040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=finding+the+area+of+a+trapezoid+worksheet+pdfPDF 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_off0000de9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE9B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6AD 18728 bytes
SHA-256: f60b0994eade2ae8a70ff46d9477cedcae76dacb6f8a8efbe8ee9e6a265866f3
font_02_sfnt_off0001284f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1284F 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 7627dede6754a5662f6ba09964f324e4e5bb1a7b120fc18322c8cb7f878a6620