Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 408a7ca2504729c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

110.0 KB Created: 2021-09-04 04:09:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 0ec5b6ae781fcd14f65819ce5ce9846a SHA-1: faf42139f86261ea48d09a043534d3792ae8ef47 SHA-256: 408a7ca2504729c5ff84040734be1d6b183493455851f7107bf35e66bd6d1f91
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting suggests a link farm attack pattern, likely intended for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious content. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm heuristics indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

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://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ddca7d9b5a159feeb6f65552e2fcd23c/daliviviwumafalifetezux.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/mowifitoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aristosaigonhotel.com/uploads/files/68843527741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elbag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c81a9dfe704c189c46bbaa7284310cfd/65636167184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hartwellcook.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/feda3c7f833a674c0782ecc94066f30f/99663076200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://werbemittelag.ch/upload/file/37502847816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vencedor.coop/images/admin/file/pafudub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.a2zmedical.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160713efdeb904---kozavuxejisegadid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://resetimpianti.it/reset/public/file/27623183836.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.belladermeestetica.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f203572ef6---50261243778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjoybrands.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610d36bb0ca13---36049310521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slavutich-media.ru/userfiles/file/marejarebewefujuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://srmhospitalities.com/images/bulk_images/files/31680352946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saopauloairporttransfers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jewilalusudinegisig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skybuildinfraprojects.com/uploads/29108805359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://musiclivemarsala.com/userfiles/files/74926903405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fullgame.hu/uploads/files/72697751574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vnsteeldetailing.com/UserFiles/files/pagom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.techsrollout.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092bda494e73---satipiwavunuxifotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altelaw.com/uploads/image/file/26037375600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://optimuselearningschool.com/learning/site/images/uploadfiles/nozivoxojuxotikeviviwoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldenparadisestsimons.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dda4f28168b33208c3662a76876dae70/55986726306.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huimao.com/upload/40150849524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=samsung+inverter+air+conditioner+service+manualPDF 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_off00013d26.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13D26 22848 bytes
SHA-256: 1c0ea6cddb76d0485f1765484467d8df6be0d22ebad69825f7c5d141aa218260
font_01_sfnt_off00017862.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17862 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00019079.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19079 10956 bytes
SHA-256: ebc5e139c647c2e055780de3de4b50009c880ab958bce6fc9e4024cf1c76e6d1