Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c4c38a51aba6e55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.0 KB Created: 2021-08-16 10:30:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 21f3c9abb08d4d9d3d5d7ea6cfbfabb0 SHA-1: 24c41ec5d519f02db07590e66bcb596e8ad6bc70 SHA-256: 9c4c38a51aba6e55b32815ca7484cd667b3e3e402a28da031a49c37e22f67c3d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. Although no scripts were extracted, the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious PDF designed to lure users to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9932

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://verticala.ro/images/userfiles/88217091483.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.cdscabling.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161126f18720b9---63114643027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inncredel.com/uploads/4066328764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masan315.net/board/imagefile/file/49252076177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/buajmcrn3bdj8rfnh42qc7a9o0/5797791475.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e982ed26133---xezuninubigaxupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chongtham68.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/4348738345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hamzsabegi60szallo.hu/UserFiles/File/tokaxulirabiwopazekote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/finoloro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobilesamara.com/img/files/file/51456432673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609caeb2ad8c2---xovusijof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c84717c215441a2f2b4d0c389bfd34e/kemizituk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.frankcapassoandsons.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2d7ac24cd8---divogudesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubyyadav.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/5752744055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizergranulators.com/d/files/masovawefirinofim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ad424a98560---vikul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funperm.ru/content/file/gukapafaxefulozob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaa1anac6cg.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0da449afde33e566bd4a660e8a49949/wakabizupuzokojajoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://widepolymers.com/userfiles/file/nuniweduxijisal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hcibatiment.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c99300e134b---pewupurogufikogonojanaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mttrasportisrl.it/dati/upload/file/fefamerakomibukaluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palaciodelosnavas.com/userfiles/file/1231039061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pinotcar.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/af01d5e2d64fedfc97d7bb5d1bca31ff/zuwupapaxilajunubab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086ab0b38c07---2892846998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afriqueitnews.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/031ecb4875beaca27532d29eceac3cf9/9865522630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4b08d4b059---40563669595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=convertidos+de+pulgadas+a+milimetrosPDF 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_off0000fdfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDFB 17616 bytes
SHA-256: 2726e877f39aeabf33d69afe187d9138c156116930b0aa5a17c1290a3b4a94b0
font_01_sfnt_off00012a7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A7F 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 90c12f79048948f27093a4b5b3f25a0fb592b46de6f1dc4c7506ad9d9a275582
font_02_sfnt_off000143a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143A6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1