Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4908f8c5e96fd8fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:52:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cc2176cf173eec4890bbd21d0e88e3d1 SHA-1: 6f44a8d3663e4393567d16e7a0c0ce3ebda17930 SHA-256: 4908f8c5e96fd8fad6028c46724b6b8ab32cdcb9b32b0076b5aed528ed10cb00
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and disposable hosting sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially malicious content, likely delivered via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 http://astro2sphere.com/admin/images/file/tonaroxupewiruwifowoxute.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.intermediastudios.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb66c15d48dbfa8410872d8cbf1aed40/badanufadozomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ngpsusa.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ho6npr7924b4vis7voc3p0tb9p/dijakavanujevimedut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anatolianlgs.com/userfiles/file/36960863947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiopros.com/userfiles/file/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ashtralmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609839ce020a0---ritalajufazujut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hmv.ir/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607db80c3f9b7---wizutudubenokunewowade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/735b19048ac85c9a55021c7bacc58d99/fowamebido.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rsl3uqo75nv7urdjpv83va4lki/32078461011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ascii.tn/web/cgi/file/32545618627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/979849143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reclaimsplus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b57de34457e8c480b788ff40bbbad179/fafaxeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://knshzj.com/CKEdit/upload/files/397391634.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allnatureint.com/userfiles/file/rodaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbakn3aoflleitf3m6a.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/togurunofamovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adepotcustom.com/UploadFiles/file/20210510114848138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5686003af4a892ea92e3a5be3d6b1fc2/59738366423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://keralahappyjourney.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muwupavuluzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b9e4a04fcb---21683249395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hafa-verein.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d5de6cc7af589b2e5347e3a77cefdef6/38232849425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/35498572744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6a563bcffc---pabufopasad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giaydantuongphongngudep.com/images/news/file/fotoworizixenewifidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitebearlakeclassof1970.com/clients/0/05/05755deafc47004aae723e515cf08a6f/File/31848081340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.focus.mu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4c34a0dcb2e5eba75187e8a79e63c3eb/26091269308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=mathworksheets4kids+find+the+slopePDF 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_off0000dfed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFED 18380 bytes
SHA-256: 40c1b558d500755c4edf61e694074d871acd85903f5da7f6ec08f43c3d4f4b33
font_01_sfnt_off00010f36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F36 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 2cc2348017ce38d9f1e68627b66ee8ea7f093c4556c420ed0c86f90a49c085df
font_02_sfnt_off00012850.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12850 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1