Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4f44ffe456ef7c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-19 15:34:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: de7b9d2eccf94d46fdda6173b7d9ac2a SHA-1: 021d17188aa8373c85bd0d70d5bad66f101df357 SHA-256: c4f44ffe456ef7c4d74879d747f089a4b7f415ccec8750119d119650036fedb1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a machine learning classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs indicates a potential phishing or spam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9849

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=free+fire+one+shot+kill+hack PDF link annotation
    • http://ablerexthailand.com/userfiles/files/20491498882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatuchlina.cz/upload/file/58303077504.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161410d6dd026a---wakaverosogulage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlantidegattico.it/file/xewezobolexuberoxule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coloreverything.love/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c0992af6bde6eb29b176555859eebd32/dadezuvazus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korea-labels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96435297067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advicezone.org.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb0uecfbvlkl9c88rfug2568pe/66389460430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panoramabyty.cz/content/tekomimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://happyorderfood.com/uploads/files/21337105467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yantrasearch.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mozipatufogegipedulegawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwcolley.com/uploads/files/wuvowinozugize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161323f27871fd---ziwabatunakafepewiroba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nyirfa.hu/uploads/files/48466863581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://billedbutikken.dk/articlefiles/file/64978388942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danguykhoidoanhnghiephp.vn/Upload/files/38423686075.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vitanov.rs/files/47694278716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saraelv.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143cea00dec5---bimisobidifezoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613e235b2adb4---wunadoren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fmmvn.net/userfiles/files/80344794513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--spreewaldpension-lbben-9lc.de/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/repali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bem-sa.com/img/file/gumofinomorizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unitez.net/images/newtech/files/50523926191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijacr.net/assets_admin/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/19751786017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://enville.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143f818e754d---74542306750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marjoyunlar.com/calisma2/files/uploads/wadatuzusamexoworepubotar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134a4cb7b109---40280120572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000b32c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB32C 15028 bytes
SHA-256: e8f782ea54803572395aa2956d24ecd5d7b4ecf8278e8ce3fb48888d5c3a8859
font_01_sfnt_off0000d934.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD934 10504 bytes
SHA-256: 5464757826249e7886d2c9af1cd8694742e25438b4e3e524b27694446ba5b5a3
font_02_sfnt_off0000f105.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF105 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1