Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04bfcf62cf3a1dad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-06-09 01:48:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 1b14841dd727e751313fcd748f0610e0 SHA-1: 3e9b87d07ea4d9d3d3bb4bf513ab9d714df5560a SHA-256: 04bfcf62cf3a1dad4cf361c6cb9bc59cfdfc066daf698f39309562d7ae28b785
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs that point to potentially compromised websites or disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. The presence of external URIs and link farm heuristics strongly suggests a malicious distribution or phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ayyappan+hd+wallpaper+download PDF link annotation
    • http://tfh-filter.hu/_user/file/benusuvogawelopeweragi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bestapp4u.com/admin/uploadedfiles/file/4959314926.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cricalliance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16095ed6b02514---birelozusitukida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trucraftsmanship.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098f8c827453---3929959936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sungsam.net/userData/board/file/luviparutojeratira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.net/file/3235004998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.medipratik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606de46ce390b---kamapefawubaja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landbondcorten.com/attachment/file/38e23472d943ce5e5fc5eeac6ac5a95a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bn7v5l9ocuj947naa7gvlopme4/87933821858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://prsnashville.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9bc5c48af016f78f6c83b45b589b2da/89517918923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cometsecurity.in/admin/userfiles/file/xasotisajej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aberdeeneyes.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a09fe97e2e1---riselexiwerujizigixumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://senzedigicraft.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0774998a439e0524d92bff11effd3e44/sejasokavasevinazafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160886b5335352---kuwigiwiteleruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE676 5052 bytes
SHA-256: f098698267e487e150f3ef19dea0765db98723e553564d5121ddc04a2bee6bd5
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7B9 10632 bytes
SHA-256: a9db28255d3bee8e2036ebb16bcc262658e19a4ea23dd514c2b6d4b4cc459d10