Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4c7fa4e6b9e0505…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-05 23:25:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 845bf5072e4a6919cb828748f860182b SHA-1: ced7b1e821ef9b6c238f238d573356e46b3bd838 SHA-256: c4c7fa4e6b9e05055bcc069baafc1ccd11406c12ff000921ca952bfcafe4076a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified it as a link farm pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The embedded URLs, such as the one hosted on itaindustrial.com.br, are likely part of this redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://centroolosprato.it/userfiles/files/piwubepukekadeg.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kolasinprevoz.rs/slike/files/91406721314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/354de21e3d3fc4eb2a21176482c1ed09/lugedetiveronoladexefevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kreasoft.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076b90bc3abe---57042641773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bargiel.com.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wudibumadadubusor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yensaovinastar.com/media/files/zisadupakek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allamericannursing.com/userfiles/file/sotimadivurasetadon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b62089a434f---48215475719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://socialbomjesus.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ea84623c49---wasuwoted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zweiund40.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dkr7jco755avogvbtnaqoopkqe/15339989772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frennphotography.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bccc803b38d---firawebizurufozasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://artsketch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1c62fa8ef7f5d61f8667127a5a58569/gevuwepod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c86af2d3ce---sutulaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g-ortho.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130654b62caf---poxovifikosirijene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.caesarstravel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072dd29f1842---88235288903.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://t-p-fortune.com/userfiles/file/305795089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jotelek.hu/files/file/31748658603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.abcklima.hu//data/editorfile/dazekafaratuxafaluwoginu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glycocalyx.nl/userfiles/image/file/72316118232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://be1971.com/clients/a/a1/a19be2fc4cf8b198b52f296748481ce5/File/punavabemimoninapelufot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aquamedia.cn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94317946274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muacuoi.vn/Pictures/files/resipotorojiropesudefov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f9706d2a9f---829310208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=sikadur+732+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_off0000d643.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD643 21408 bytes
SHA-256: 31b0042d14f8d3534190981deed25ad62e8c2deda65a45447b96ee4c5ad018f8
font_01_sfnt_off00010e90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E90 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000126a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x126A7 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 87b77c1dc5cd9ec2fbf701c9e4545cc94e5f48a18baa86c885f0ce1120a3c2f2