Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4205744b5f869baf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 09:01:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 212776090b71965155b56ad21d7230c9 SHA-1: 815333b7126221cd1dd02079db98e1c2379204f4 SHA-256: 4205744b5f869bafc7ed05a53bbbfa74b11885ad5592229e59f92f6b077c7255
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing attempt. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, likely serves to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads, aligning with common phishing and malware distribution tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=konica+minolta+bizhub+c360+service+manual+free+download PDF link annotation
    • https://www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0b88aa34aa083ad0c0c6868939dfa75c/74306407118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozgu-yapi.com/firma/files/43695719197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ebiocell.com/uploadfile/file///2021051800280956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.swaving-stalinrichting.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tetin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chulatutoracademy.com/chulatutor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/64806953218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mobistore.co.nz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d25d9acafbbe54cab121177f3798d679/90709064418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rowtheerne.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/47887788c7842196e7e63b3926905343/dumusizanutagajesogosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/lutuvekumebonujulajix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dyna-tech.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160989cc37e252---zogetokegebugoxutabomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spaslask.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1k1suoqjodiv4pvnbup1ebkeq1/takuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drstevealbrecht.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b67c7312bd2588bf3a97de17f111754e/jupikavavemamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://horgaszvelem.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bapasetulemezefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spl-designs.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/39441062668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodwellassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d72cf6f510e0627c382101fe9e4a42e/31154250171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linker.tw/files/weminokasif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/576ugoeeqp4hg76oa6ttgsvm37/rirapisusilejaxokamapif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.yankey.com.tw/demo/public/editor/ckfinder/upload/user_upload/files/19440602213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.okcfarmersmarket.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0cf58a3e86dfa8fbf15450444fe77c9e/64563035470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipacific.com/attachment/file/pumutaxomileb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shuswapladystriders.ca/userfiles/file/76544435151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basumati.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xafamola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yourtuscanyguide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ap61cual9u7455vg72djruc1j2/tonuzurexukenodema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stagerightstaging.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4865fb7582d6b09b0dfa6c0cc8c419fa/49169444764.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bazatalty.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7ce90c8461a7f2c99f517cd92b2f6db/29778401742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temsilcifirsatlari.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16081e77dc4d60---72828272180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxtailmag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/70b4413829373b52c4fa26795e870b86/75121540447.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_off0000db6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB6B 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 9fe5ac55e7f467e0089166dcfb69a2c172339f7558a16846130906d9b8afc0b7
font_01_sfnt_off000107ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FD1 11644 bytes
SHA-256: 2c0dd4ee6cb2432ea7dbd11a752d22298b402dfe59282cb871d6c21a0338e14e