Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 405dd4a12dc6e6d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.7 KB Created: 2021-06-27 11:15:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: e73c9180b13f6357d0438e1511ab4f01 SHA-1: 708e6fb2c34f05c95a9fafb9135f1c147ad47bef SHA-256: 405dd4a12dc6e6d184233daec407f7405b4913fec44f15547c19e6657fef8125
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct clues to its purpose beyond the embedded link farm.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://theemasternetworker.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/runuzekamojovefos.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://emilline.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99205786392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadavisaservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4764345ba---27689591489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futurepoolandspa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/susixojurewezisorepurox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area5srl.it/file/38957580954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sugarfree-gelato.com/upload/file/jagamonufoselubadomenanof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.azembay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/94feomf6cn80ckc5gugqdti7kh/87186667994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.scmphotography.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8616040159---wanova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c9ec279e5b---85164773919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----8sbpvg0afdbe.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m5p5caium2ebujov0gnrl5hoq3/79864691214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://springbook.no/files/98342132839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rieker-consulting.eu/files/file/nilorulekimarun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hacunamatata.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25d7169c971b78294f553f10d5d05ba6/26936324816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majorsagilekvaros.hu/uploads/file/pinopumilusibidalun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyett.hk/uploads/news/files/ronigoxutijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yarsan.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa1039f6caf7c8b7f8263336e5e51f47/zogipuzejagukexer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bouncebodysupplements.com/newerac2c/userfiles/file/63248564107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hondamienbac.vn/userfiles/file/71690163128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.fecomerciomg.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984703207c1---26183198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1iavbek9tmbblop44154r9t92/70599011541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://him-home.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7215d7383f65ee967ba0e7958b23d25/33276589437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.landalastadservice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a301819bd9---85289018713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasilii-orlov.fun/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc78d6feb07a54a7ffc82419d9317a41/33540242558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.petersmetalstitching.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086d35b9b253---58469346843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc68f91212c6a1e8133f3d42eb9df8b7/76737328567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=11+bst+to+istPDF 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_off0000f2fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2FC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0E 17560 bytes
SHA-256: 45731c51941574fa503928ec72aaacbe23b5239cb2c9f7929d9249f41412dece
font_02_sfnt_off000138e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138E6 9652 bytes
SHA-256: 8ba09161e207b0f3ec548e684f4c55bf43a7a653329fde71964dad57fd39cb66