Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a4d19ca610e137a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.0 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:56:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 5241b34e45813279e9f463ac15eb86ad SHA-1: 606fb7675596272c02c62644dcbc41911ee396ee SHA-256: 0a4d19ca610e137ab3666b0993b6e21d65342aa616805753c5e0af57d9e494d1
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings point to a pattern of redirecting users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9844

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 http://alpha-cp.com/userfiles/file/33161193505.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://frangarcia.eu/upload/file/finamulebasevetanilaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nanodrywash.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9471f43846---bovavunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faceconnects.com/ci/userfiles/files/62543493759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j4ca80da064le6e7imipt8idt4/13941809736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tl-systems.hu/files/files/78420856029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariagussago.com/userfiles/files/42669120628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nirmalapublicschoolerumely.com/userfiles/file/79573507166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hizirferforje.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/images/file/gewezevidakulotoruxeduxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wilsonbarrera.com/inicio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb0a71ad231---kutesawugonirumomezofumef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://home18.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ba74847c01aaf5bba7d789f4da02686/wodisemosajafapinekexawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stalmont.eu/userfiles/file/29957178685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adanateknikservis.web.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8b485a6f70---tudobenisaxaxeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://le27.fr/docs/file/guwut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaoduocquyhiem.com/userfiles/image/file/61009801120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrbossamktown.com/uploads/files/wubevogeroxetuvow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kunapak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qbbkd2hoaa54fajgf8gcokekll/30013496939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lcd96.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/03d28d2bf24c90531e92b6bcae4c9ccb/vogumonogiraxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adsbudget.net/userfiles/file/68781285443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d92ebd3998bb2868302e1ba0001d1261/gowexizawidufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jatyn.cn/upfiles/202105/file/1620354673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://togeltop.net/contents//files/nomituretazefolizoguber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nsdadventist.org/FCKData/file/nepumimexawopapalexelon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chornakorn-packing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22717046353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrachoff.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e60ebc9203c68e4aa778448185dac396/gonugefup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.baileysmilk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f68dad37aa8daf58c143083972d6083a/fofotubelogenezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceomit.com/fckupload/file/denilijanozare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galettedesrois.eu/userfiles/file/zuluje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=percent+word+problems+worksheet+with+answers+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_off0000ccdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCDD 18328 bytes
SHA-256: 071915f6f55d14c9575f20cfd4e241a6356175ce7932420b4833515e61d173e7
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC2C 11204 bytes
SHA-256: 2296a8d6af9465faacc4f8e17e5645050c226cfe20783b3bdd3ba06dade0be95
font_02_sfnt_off00011609.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11609 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1