Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f4a52c178a62c976…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 12:13:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f222bf8529157edc6e2c7664dbd4d339 SHA-1: 02ee58e01c6950fc53d9e955214abc69fe1ff6a6 SHA-256: f4a52c178a62c9767a68a09d620241cdace8438e9718f6f9d4dcb07e9def7602
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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 http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/81108744554.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://bilmatbasim.com/userfiles/file/ginafob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9387c83eade6ad27c00116df34492486/33954708520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nirkongrp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71623682229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wujipacking.tw/upload/files/23868587932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mrdak.cc/uploadfile/files/99805851572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://k-kompany.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bbe8f80aca8805b1aec40dc0b166cf1f/dasazasudejebejuboraxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ekransamara.ru/files/35217006856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pima-alarms.rs/slicice/file/13645256421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milkyway-vn.com/upload/files/25269890178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kino-profi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d64d6f3cb73fddbcedc6039396e21a54/nejetuwuwavegewife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porpora.biz/imagenes/imagenes_contenidos///43326638825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reiki-roots.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613666b80cc1c---22859899706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stopserv.ru/files/file/rewogorux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gitimohammadilakhimpur.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xiwexamumuxinulereludo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mtcnx.com/upload/fckimagesfile/78113440701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aodaibooking.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210915_ACCF2D09AF5963A0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anabakorea.jp/userfiles/file/78557681597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://salvamontbihor.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/24847039883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e52d444576db2c94beede6466716dfbd/jagasajamenodaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosonnguyenthanh.vn/webroot/userfiles/files/19213700276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354a0714289---7461087853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cauthinh.com/luutru/files/sowamanan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=fresh+prince+of+bel+air+123moviesPDF 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_off0000d9ad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD9AD 18128 bytes
SHA-256: 7d857315b2df8e42678c92f9d866179c6e4fb133cfb1a9e67e78766d379db877
font_01_sfnt_off000108dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000120f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120F3 11172 bytes
SHA-256: 7992a60c2a0b508aa02be73b98a830a739ab7506c0b775d855ec1777c9e652b3