Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4089312d3266eb6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.7 KB Created: 2021-07-08 10:01:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e57fb3603dd79073eff0ddc82282ce06 SHA-1: ecdc81aa775bad326ebe32d96fd403563a068f04 SHA-256: 4089312d3266eb6d67e178402c43085c3dcf07432291d51a712bda44908159d0
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as containing a link farm pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting. The presence of numerous external URIs, including one pointing to a raw IP address, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate the malicious nature of this file, indicating it likely serves as a lure to a malicious second stage.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • Clickable URI points to raw IP address medium PDF_URI_IP_LITERAL
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) action whose host is a literal IPv4 address. Legitimate documents normally link to named domains; raw-IP destinations are common in disposable phishing and malware-delivery infrastructure.
  • 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://archism.ru/uplcv?utm_term=java+and+j2ee+interview+questions PDF link annotation
    • http://quangcaosms.org/media/ftp/file/jajigunajisali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mtpartnersfl.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070e6cc52809---mutekubufinobogixapiroz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maloneslandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0a8e9ca5b5---32852770354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gametimecatering.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16070258854a12---67678270316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://completecollegestrategies.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/96bc6e6f603441ed4f5b8e40cc4afe85/65294658221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://penoplex24.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a5522943e2---49503658635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lamuccacompany.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6a276863dfef38f4fbd952dfb76dd193/nanuxekikikugasibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usmleworkout.com/files/file/95504168704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lolakarimova.uz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28788095842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://art-gallery.mn/uploads/files/talolisidobegixirunoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarsurdurulebilir.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ri90v54nv61nici6patu9dfio6/16741503522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/29418982129.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sweetestspaparty.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d9ac6bf3fc---30200210590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alphaveneers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f93271bf2689c745f096675b424d71ff/34906031257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wodepcb.cn/uploadfiles/files/95664450370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://104.156.58.56/~web2inbox/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b30e11e915---37238010459.pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e6a98d5dfa---91436887287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms02bet.com/contents//files/sutatajuvupijipolusog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiconghoixuancong.com/Khicong/admin/userfiles/file/ximosefuzifepadali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de77ceba11---tuwofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lesson-online.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kuo11vmr9msrmvc05184n0f3n5/tekujunemejubuwokad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/rolibaxamemewudiwi.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_off0000d02c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD02C 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 2d117f4fce09574ae041f49b8603123ecb812a6317fcb495210c91b1ed019013
font_01_sfnt_off0000e93e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE93E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010150.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10150 17136 bytes
SHA-256: 1280b3aeb90fdfd711735de259c8648fba18e24772e95a99bfa5345914ff68ab