Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4fa652b31184f2a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB Created: 2021-09-11 07:11:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d606a19a0f3c103709f2bce5bb8c67d9 SHA-1: eb3c102f3c098a03c239ece5984cb855d0f14dd1 SHA-256: c4fa652b31184f2a6bb2bf5e200ddc58c2c7c39f01ce0fecdd4acbcc04a0c1fc
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. Several heuristics indicate the PDF contains numerous external URIs and links to potentially compromised CMS upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9950

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
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fast+and+furious+9+full+movie+bg+audio PDF link annotation
    • http://divorcefinance.nl/uploads/file/wetuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharenkon.com/files/34241784251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mtestbd.com/assets/uploads/files/kevifowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjjiffy.com/upload/33927220212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://onsale.social-push.cc/data/fckeditor/files/87389493193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urbanelect.com/userfiles/file/runuwarujitejamupubububev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guoyangmoju.com/userfiles/files/foziwelumenemobadew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wolfgang-photography.com/userfiles/files/simavisug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chicagoportablexray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354fd270fbd---91818177478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaydungdonggia.com/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/96228240946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mithermomix.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/346f7bb9e913b1f330aced21c3a50f67/33716823449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atenngo.com/admin/sites/site/documents/tegetifikovotagigil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lokalizacja-gps.pl/userfiles/file/gaboruluruwiwir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tecs4.com/intranet/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89156622421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hkwebdesign.com.hk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132f6d03c58d---nifuzowap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://responsible-tourism-alliance.com/content_file/files/72289302016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jindatunnel.com/up_files/file/33346580037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcisitesi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132e55a4fc06---75083094201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprofitnesstrainers.com/userfiles/file/miwarexexuwobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vieclamlaocai.vn/webroot/img/files/81397733662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipnovini.bg/root/f/uploads/files/82439601638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/28268606808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rrmkaryacollege.org/rrmkarya/userfiles/file/negegekegamewafogiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agataklimowska.pl/userfiles/file/novinofafapumaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b531fb4534---tomukifa.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_off0000b195.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB195 16272 bytes
SHA-256: 14222e23f8fac63b06708af507d8bcdb6753bdfd8e8b311c56f4021f61981dc7
font_01_sfnt_off0000dabd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDABD 11148 bytes
SHA-256: 18213807513d20ae4ddc711a0d87677d59613727461b87e5dcfff1e6bf4facba
font_02_sfnt_off0000f49e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF49E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1