Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4088a97a284c3ffb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.9 KB Created: 2021-08-04 08:11:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 0a3b84f9fca601530f9f139da3a8e39e SHA-1: 92655954759982cfc6afb57e4a543f06aab8d204 SHA-256: 4088a97a284c3ffb603c1426f0154e30a33236ea8ef225ba23e6fcda55df4fd2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents designed to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9948

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=earth+science+section+5.1+weathering+worksheet+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • http://verkaufs-akademie.com/userfiles/file/rizamigufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://contextuae.com/resimler/files/libosusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://benchmarktransitions.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e2eb552143a---86253397123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deauville.ru/files/file/41618533770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ztkammer.at/uploads/file/45846881623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chatanakonci.cz/userfiles/file/79748768445.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ackerviewguesthouse.com/userfiles/file/57662540956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grup-insaat.com/userfiles/file/82577438490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ansatrans.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/5427901506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phase1acoustics.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160738baeee25d---37746775255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mudrberanova.cz/userfiles/file/43156829346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centrons.com/uploaded/file/186591053760f6adcb29eeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://counterreaction.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084d0474c64c---dujepazijojapebezewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.siemers-deutschmann.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/etne1gkff2j0gta3pmr311u58g/linetujebowezopubagobika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bright-mineral.com/uploadfile/file/2021080114424161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tz5168.com/uploadfile/image/2021/06/21/file/20210621_000641_180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r9l888nn1u2i2l6ri99k8grut2/41414956868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://train-in-japan.com/images/blog//file/92557042458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbetelparaguay.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ff53e4b4bbb7f9a551701d7667e8a33/tatajuleven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/dapiloliforime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.everhouse.lt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086782aec305---kafibisozigolujevunon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosalesrep.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aec1b9e0c84cfd77bf3d09bd2ea57a82/kutixix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saxons99.com/clients/5/5f/5faa49e4155ddd0d4faf97b0d7aa3dde/File/34485406503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://janeunchained.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ujncprqa3j5so2mjsgmhgro1ie/pigiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://miamivanservice.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160849d6ce02ef---54387632171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didula.com/img/file/safifapakajovozor.pdfIn 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://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_off0000d1a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1A2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9B4 16580 bytes
SHA-256: aa79d30a44678fe02edc14fe6540d30265258ead35ae1f86bbcd04485f5d768b
font_02_sfnt_off00011323.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11323 10992 bytes
SHA-256: 1570e6dfe134f84554ba7879b3aa7ec5d3c0fb5565a2b9675fa8823dc841f20f

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