Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4fafbf19463d616…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-09-16 19:08:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 68d2772c9b1b76db1e9074af8e452752 SHA-1: 436f1eb62b73b7273800631117cbe7dd5083cdda SHA-256: c4fafbf19463d616dd08939b77756efc994eaba5e0df62ae9a6922a488f4c788
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating a high probability of maliciousness. The document contains numerous embedded URLs that point to various domains, many of which appear to be compromised or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ott+navigator+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://anitacalderon.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/8405594848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ou-ravda.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wanakomupujifidov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljjxmining.com/uploadfile/file///2021090119004324.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nigerseedindia.com/uploads/purobadulusijexivuwulolip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/8869547484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uat.ideadunes.com/projects/ideadunes-portfolio-site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613add5d6c299---memunojojute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaithun.net/upload/files/48091849753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.domaine-boussard-chablis.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jabop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://surausa.com/uploads/files/25572933226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gitialiganjlko.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9260863918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilocom.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gukusilijim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://halaljones.com/uploads/files/tajugipudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alfavit.tv/userfiles/file/zipexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mundolibre.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/miburokotelidaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jamiatulbanat.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614052bd7a790---1999676125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ibadirect.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161408f94298cf---vomegapiminepotazugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kiaavcilar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/kajaxirexujojalon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhakhoasaigonkimcuong.com/uploads/images/files/kusebokafakuzujabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urdu-hadith.com/survey/userfiles/files/lowesita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://form4concrete.ru/pics/cont/file/lejiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlm-kg.com/uploads/file/16304574210.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://corse.annuaire-regional.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gonifax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maydongy.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/scj932hjq063qg4pkeoo9uetvm/xilekufaboledakasugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://verner.lt/images/files/20041416812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--hh0b97d8is16e.com/userData/board/file/sivozomu.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_off0000c056.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC056 19588 bytes
SHA-256: 763feb9021827b2129653ba0528c9a431b39b25548db949f9e973d25608f949b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f282.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF282 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 881baf825a8d914ff006dbfaf21fef0aa7a6f2469f5f9990f625c11dc50ae2cf
font_02_sfnt_off000109c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x109C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1