Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 435d84a4541136c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.9 KB Created: 2021-07-21 18:00:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: fda1604244fdb3a835236df997deabc6 SHA-1: 8395bd8a2a42b772299fafcda49784c47063f841 SHA-256: 435d84a4541136c3920298210ffba5f465e5502fa5610ac2f962d80a9d5ac0df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress uploads or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing further analysis of its specific content or intent beyond its role as a link aggregator.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://placc.info/up_image/92102894718.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://centar-znr-zop.hr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077252b4fbdb---37661528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aucoindeshalles.com/menu/file/rafefazizedukedule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circuitoinsulargc.com/documentos/file/86465117302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.finestkindcharter.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e32020cbc9---56070678528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizhkj.com/upload_fck/file/2021-7-10/20210710131400456130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ch1mn5e4tegfcndinhi8j85u1u/97261170196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayamalay.com/clients/874202/File/88606859722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://larrialdiak.es/files/galeria/files/wagizamojupadoderalulane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfectthesale.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609850c83e8a0---133763699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b86d5b5f078---23195122332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://notarbrazda.cz/userfiles/file/dexitanifonofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puntoagricoltura.it/file/jasifejajudoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aimic.com/userfiles/file/33251418233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.karenlovelee.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f8359f00bb0---dotezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bmat.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/11609605391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e6202b125d---valedudazowibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yidinfo.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tlhcdenef3jefoegt2hub9gqsl/gefizukeguvuzamoxunato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ksnjl.com/userfiles/files/99405809307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terminsk.by/pics/files/metusufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pavcargo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dccf7178f9a19d44d393cc1facf2024d/34219554860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://poldercuptrofee.nl/site/admin/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/26525320540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dazzlin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3cf2b96090416c1d4dd892f1634f5e09/kebunaluvewasabapapax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beckydavidsonhomes.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609acc5bb6566---29489111211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=element+and+molecule+differencePDF 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_off0000e9fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9FD 17180 bytes
SHA-256: 5573eced258e03ca3d54839f140dd30ffe71bb3d0798cabdf82148ddabcc262c
font_01_sfnt_off00011671.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11671 10552 bytes
SHA-256: d100c6c39603e88d35a4de376696c6ad963d62416b044b0b0704d70afe2f3448
font_02_sfnt_off00012e64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12E64 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1