Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 408f96854a1ad468…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:17:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5a1ca29ac4bb237c8344f8ecda85e107 SHA-1: a2d5c59b0e13fb2c38aba5d45b98c90a1ceacd3a SHA-256: 408f96854a1ad4689d5b7449eb52d416192b2b97607dd90b4b06936e25b9b9f5
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9761

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=tn+12th+tamil+book+pdf+free+download PDF link annotation
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/77891362922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bclgrouptt.com/userfiles/file/38899601759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/74741663818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.introspekta.si/ckfinder/ckeditor_uploaded_files/files/71906173016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.scanworld.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075ddfcd3b8a---matuzinegilixukabazukop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slavica.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6910145fde05193f4d803bed32bd206d/babomutixitos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/xozakibiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paraglider24.de/pics/fotos/1/file/pujat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mikepromedia.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cktfj62ba3s1uulhos52a4sh0/76211660949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fb8a4441128---10290169790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b22434ppd1cppo5m4rf27rr93/zituwatorizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onthebroadway.com/CPD/adminpanel/upload/file/83502009584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tessilgiada.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f498134f38a---wuxiruwejanozelijoxip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuocamakong.net/userfiles/image/file/zevojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taiwan-tiaya.com/upload/tiaya_official/files/16221818061.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bong-dem-long.org/upload/editor/files/bebemenera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e60f03c56---69470959943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://antoinepanau.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbebae775b3fbc1798acdf61d4ba8590/gowojawubafoxafetotel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rdmsrl.it/userfiles/files/9355486370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharmaright.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kv6tejq2o2frb1il119rmcp7oa/bivokitoxubon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.keystonecare.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4292e5dac87eb4243f75dd6a8d41eb7a/vaterageje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff1d4b86fe---45670124130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alves.bg/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16207876337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://msiutilities.net/documents/92755157512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://metroguards.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c9598cb6cfd---xinukosuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agro-pasz.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/78769798220.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d7bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7BB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000efd2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD2 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 0759596650718fab8081de1993e5ef5a5e33e988612e93c65be4ee5c47e7789e
font_02_sfnt_off00010931.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10931 22044 bytes
SHA-256: a95d47540adf531acc792ec169b2ba1fdaf468b22f4849a1d3f55330efc9e852
font_03_sfnt_off00014121.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14121 16388 bytes
SHA-256: f3264a5b85e11e24aea607e0f06b9a64c282d97490139342f1bdd9f9dc08db3a