Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4b8af56aa89c234…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.8 KB Created: 2021-07-23 15:44:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 370f8ce3df1c0dccc11e64ceb073f395 SHA-1: c7e3c1558f4cd85cebe045089f68614fb4d6ac12 SHA-256: c4b8af56aa89c2343b80dcc5f514a984171dc362b8692262c15b1da1612f6a67
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm with multiple URLs pointing to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics strongly suggest a malicious PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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 http://ballstonfamilymedicine.com/clients/861402/File/60420845308.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/35356618456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lacasedescaraibes.fr/file/rovukolosemof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9492a551e4467a585aec8baa696571c7/wipekanawapiluvexaxuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laser-piskovani.cz/democms/userfiles/file/11765698468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuifan.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-2/20210502085642396920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lightingsolutionsal.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bcf758ad0e919e86fda407cfb40d959/dazalawudokixute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radiopopiatej.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608068c225fb1---latuvizigepunigimifuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afayl.com/userfiles/file/4177924183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.beadvised.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e01e849e0bfc203caeb1a17db6e0c3e8/kaxadajefiwarotekelakalal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/93704293007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lightupalife.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160862b4009269---96199892028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prestopc.it/upload/file/sijakaxegutukefikazaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://journeypeople.cc/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c94431e98b86df853591db5ae73c0f9/warivifuxomadudomar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://theshairpodcast.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/35ca20ac1db049b6ea6842340b58b2e9/31515664527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okfilm.kr/userData/board/file/34501910104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trickapotisk.cz/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53809404183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://betonwerkendejonge.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072f82b942f8---10621833275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aeskulap24h.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607ba0d85cc8b---xebibabajezugunezaludi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://signaturetowerpune.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2trrujghprtujti9nnn4nsf3t3/10398646417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://countrysquirefoods.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609080043fd1b---tojupajiwususetaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://albino-pitti.com/pub_img/file/mosufisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/faliwusuwatiniludesuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=ejercicios+de+areas+y+per%C3%ADmetros+para+primaria+para+imprimirPDF 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_off0000cf91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF91 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A3 17624 bytes
SHA-256: d212eaec30f525af78d62277fef31e390c9146b215a86a4f9c690f6d4ed8b021
font_02_sfnt_off00011483.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11483 10812 bytes
SHA-256: d9ef24afa30e17a9ef9588a4b61a5cb2af2a281f8445954212bc864bfbcee527