Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4d8e451131001c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-10-07 13:51:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 2b4a2e09f46a5290d43dd956980ef92d SHA-1: b936ce253c8de2ea7bce9182973a97258b2841db SHA-256: c4d8e451131001c6111428d94426b981b823e3f5c9a69ea8431b8c76531a680a
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to external PDFs, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS uploads or disposable domains, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://drxzhang.com/userfiles/file/jabisizifugadifefaburig.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ngocphuocjsc.com/public/default/ckeditor/files/tigukifulapobafofapabavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misosmile.com/upload/editor/files/18043577490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovacsoltvaskerites.hu/images/file/buxuligoferemupagerixevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baanpowertrain.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16144088411ae1---waxadalizobukokite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehpromyar.ru/media/file/mugoziwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://c-six.it/userfiles/files/dabinatevagutogapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beta-rc.com/upload/files/55010597978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://themodernla.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f9e73650c182342a81b3a98617716d8/sojebufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://life-homeshop.buyout8.com/asset/uploads/files/38895597069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businessplan-capalpha.fr/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/14896146240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f103f8b5c16523f2c1d860e07108aa74/lezudifidivunuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svingenieria.cl/userfiles/file/83923477313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pepinieres-soupe.com/userfiles/file/14323748235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://at2-turbo-j3t.com/contents/files/14609505432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://casaledellasignora.it/userfiles/files/16922599289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://odlingfamily.com/userfiles/file/wozafopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://140.121.161.111/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37966295010.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://honghuibio.com/d/files/33628041044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tonghuichem.com/upload/files/buzefogevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalamathachurch.org/cms_uploads/image/file/47551464864.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialsupplies.pk/userfiles/files/57124558531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/dowuwomodibejudekomifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=hallman+what+do+we+do+to+lovePDF 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_off0000d66e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD66E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE80 21848 bytes
SHA-256: a5c9a09f6d06ff373a825f0947d08b298d562c8748e25700d409373e6cfce642
font_02_sfnt_off00012752.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12752 10296 bytes
SHA-256: c4d0e632fff04bc0aad32efaaa04cc8e89d708c719444faacfdcec9417fe1e28