Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fff639f0eebc0d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.4 KB Created: 2021-09-12 07:56:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 1967fd7074b3e94753d12936dbb08c9a SHA-1: a2c864e17183f90ad9683994fe89b4f5885a48d1 SHA-256: 4fff639f0eebc0d761167f47a499e6ba64a85239379210e18a0c972fea3aecc9
172 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and an ML classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Several heuristics point to the document being a link farm, with some links hosted on compromised CMS upload storage and others on disposable hosting. The presence of a 'download button' lure and urgency language further supports a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9820

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://oilspecchem.com/files/18221894421.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://satellietgroep.nl/userfiles/files/38432267527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nenayu.com/filespath/files/20210909092740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tindangnhadat.vn/upload/files/fubavujabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ardechetendancebrut.fr/userfiles/ardechetendancebrut.fr/file/pasisepujafajipawejep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habrit.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vidifigosoxefalowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cementfeet.com/userfiles/file/lepovasokazezeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angem.fr/userfiles/file/4353639621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://citra.cl/userfiles/file/73681353239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/tutawog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soi.icami.mx/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86411252922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fullmooneye.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612f7e0497dfc---lewepuxamidazelojoforex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sutinlawkrabi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nixewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nt-module.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bewalolagizab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halaljones.com/uploads/files/vazujudekilezuwakaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landlorddebtadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b383bc6845bc131dd05279c597da320c/banovat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prettygreekvillas.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectofile/52463186907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savitravel.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/65223129733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.olympusnorge.no/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u171if90d2fok23i52gh4gd3rr/povoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trompis-tondschungel.de/userfiles/file/35495593581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1b06d099409415f467744353bd9f24ba/10809320618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sexualaufklaerung-schule.ch/ck/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fonojuzuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escrima-rlp.de/userfiles/file/9798900877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alcoquimicos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zomurepijexamemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smarttactic.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613229748057f---muxumegisox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://randoquad72.fr/userfiles/file/51501149890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/S30rS-6n6vg/uplcv?utm_term=automatic+call+recorder+not+recording+callsPDF 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_off0000fdc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDC6 10792 bytes
SHA-256: cf51f420d87cab9787181bd56916e4300723231dd532fffe0f9885ecc3867cd3
font_01_sfnt_off0001166e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1166E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012e80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E80 18836 bytes
SHA-256: 79d3e479880d342d3918913359bb656f95d4c46258836561ffc24c3ad91f522a