Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d4c4a50f3642e242…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-07 01:33:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: acc20a9ae76110258bd661c91c16f62d SHA-1: 05a149d56c56a502d0a6f084cb9b8e540fc82799 SHA-256: d4c4a50f3642e2422a2412492f75ba55e761df3ff5a6ef4b550dbf692c3abc11
216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The links likely lead to phishing pages or further malware downloads, consistent with a spearphishing attachment attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

Heuristics 8

  • 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 to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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 https://garglob.ru/uplcv?utm_term=butter+poached+lobster+gordon+ramsay PDF link annotation
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/19845319505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e4b019a942f---sapuriligodewevinubexij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/joridivufoxovano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.deuba.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7bmuvoitd32n3o5lmip2ir4d5j/motowofune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieuthivatlieuhoanthien.com/upload/files/liluvivubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://torrentclub.vip/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/l8ddob6bs2e9dp0rr75ar8pjls/vinedidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/wexem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://startmatbaa.com/userfiles/file/30367681412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarnuricomuisvealisverismerkezi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5o007pos7v2vqggo42i0pilal2/nijiliwelad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ledseoul.com/userData/board/file/riraruzalesudugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hrudolf.com/userfiles/gobufatobimon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sklepjola.pl/userfiles/file/nugun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://autodilykanka.cz/cmsimple/images/file/14637777165.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ashioke.com/images/library/File/65158687308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luckyassessoria.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160939f6f0e011---tivozev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ivanamihic.com//files/24866653800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/zuxofijifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soosekszer.hu/upload/files/6257915698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oknookna.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d09430fc67---43565605201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geoplan.su/userfiles/file/44364511380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timeyear-v.com/userfiles/file/levetapon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://79.170.40.182/boothtastic.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079eff5f11ca---42582471713.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://email-database.info/userfiles/file/vafajezaseduzifarinarabev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.c2commercial.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5daa9b28c6f6199cf471f39c4b3aaea2/wobuvegobowo.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_off0000e97a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE97A 18560 bytes
SHA-256: d6a2335f73136df580d625ac028b5cd6f9299cfabe6a469a8fee89aab272741f
font_01_sfnt_off00011aa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AA5 11276 bytes
SHA-256: c5d1b68f7a872a39e1c2b3e24e1fd3edc018284bb19e9ddcb15fc92dfdca5962
font_02_sfnt_off00013492.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13492 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1