Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4d971e4eda9c128…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-09-02 06:06:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c3ea219cecab350a64c34548b80c2928 SHA-1: e93127d83ae62433a5dc0497c8b154017a3d9266 SHA-256: c4d971e4eda9c128756bc47b0a08306a593030b4f11b0c6da59b69219d7918e0
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1055.012 Process Injection T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress sites, indicating a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous links to potentially malicious content is sufficient evidence for this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://vayamcs.com/content_files/files/fuvowovuresupujufiva.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.psstrecno.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8067c9b50c---28554225178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purpleleafestatebuyers.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607fa6240d72e---lejomusunisuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079026773988---selefifosif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2a7f4a01578d9487e907122084993411/17657641623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reklama-v-sochi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/napanazenatelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bendhorseride.com/userfiles/file/wasopodux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hcs1000.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4077ab27b431c26659eb694f46fc54cb/50554543924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shinyjewellers.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/in7v71qg1cp4au24bddivlph8o/48103602076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimensioninteractive.com/WYSIWYGImage/file/69266803527.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contemporaryteas.in/admin/uploads/file/3093167449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nationaalgolfcongres.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160845f2bb00a8---raworubuxekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://recamonde.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609642e7f127e---76126417787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://firstcuwire.com/file_media/file_image/file/42995431476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adler-leitishofen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b0e45f8fdf2---38548447109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beiwendq.com/userfiles/file/9534143340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anfauglir.com/images/file/sugeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corse.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/potoperoxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de15673f4c9---39971048863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yoko-ono.be/images/userfiles/file/vazumubomakupogaxoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4rmu47pmpuq9l49lrq0h6aiq23/vebamirabaduva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://parfumerieindex.nl/images/uploads/76686097355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://robinio.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/q54si4ou218btmipl24j76sgro/zoluzimenifuwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog//file/puvafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=four+qualities+of+empathyPDF 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_off0000e90b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE90B 18060 bytes
SHA-256: 52407b5fb8f8a08a7068ecc3fc6a6eab9138f0e97ab2ee2abd96c824ef750244
font_01_sfnt_off0001188a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1188A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000130a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130A1 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 4c3b6ac8003ed0c3fc5f69cd721d055cac54661cfceec56d3b4000fdd47dcd0a