Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04a2543de603752d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 14:34:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1449954c6a100c4db16044331073a458 SHA-1: e4f47ae57fd9b6a406ae4cdf40ac18f8cda4375c SHA-256: 04a2543de603752d243d52029c5f010b4608b3d1759b9e3306a92799de1d2954
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to potentially compromised CMS upload directories, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a visual download button further supports a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

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
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://creteotels.gr/FCKeditor/userimages/file/61202710752.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://blossomtour.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210801_2EBB3839931CB561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://etonbio.com/newsLetters/images/file/76738212597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7d2f5bb66c7040834c6e9664e563952a/fovubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://moje-stranky.eu/userfiles/file/89346451168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dfa-finanz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084231b34256---vabufoborutogatovagox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gulertrafik.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h6kaoi00m44gjvd5hv8f5qr2mj/6765384317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210716_7CFB018532AF3288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f8d6442d61---26785173515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beachhigh65.com/clients/879402/File/47359917328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202106/file/1624385480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pirac.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b5f6c340d15485b27c3516719f41feb8/51092040649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://assurancemauricie.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080c9b197d92---zibetebasazonegelogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612069ff8d502---matabitatawuniwovuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhixnktientien.com/Images_upload/files/pexerasonazabaxol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://branchennachweis.eu/userfiles/file/74296384536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://venusnvs.com/userfiles/file/fajejedemovuliwovodatuguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flex-link.cn/uploadfiles/files/kebumafuzaguzonotujife.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoteam.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/betat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/38274155843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burchiellati.com./file_fck/file/gejotezilafet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.partyshuttlebus.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f61099e5e3c---45502467561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=janbaz+by+abu+shuja+pdfPDF 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_off0000ba11.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA11 16804 bytes
SHA-256: 1e7c97de02fc91cf84ea0edbee7e8cf91df4d04c1db078e551354dd6a805b857
font_01_sfnt_off0000e553.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE553 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fd6a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD6A 10540 bytes
SHA-256: cd5e8f56f8ed5f5da8678dc156c46143b35af0bd57a2a0c5abca0e287ae5b844