Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4978e892f82c7fa4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-06-26 00:21:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: db2a1a26ec5f38becc75d8504554e01f SHA-1: cc3df57284c3855f3c096d430246597f199a8425 SHA-256: 4978e892f82c7fa43bfd969bdf8a187a44d2d95f3b7b71860b6cd6c51b3165ab
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan payload. It contains a link farm with numerous URLs hosted on compromised CMS sites and disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic reinforces the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=research+proposal+cover+page+apa PDF link annotation
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/tufeja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://study-go.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ac524196add12434559ab535b39bcc44/vabijerawiwagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angelsstaff.com/uploads/file/gufomipiguzukola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sbsoftware.ro/admin/userfiles/file/69833824511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desertflying.club/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8496c32026---42574054236.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sabiamente.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adafa012dde---panibolifogifom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a3d62d75a---88044527459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099b33e5f045---15825037413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.expoagrogto.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4omb8sibdeked6rffmkt3l8180/34529007598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gradur.ba/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086873bb3ef6---gudunanet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techniq.ae/admin/uploadfiles/file/kaputewoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicacomciencia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160858404ee4bc---larakitugatadufux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://innova-perila.ru/upload/files/sogamazinirotaban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dom-nenilovo.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/193a32790313c6596b6205c378328fca/vebufepewujeliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ehomeforeclosure.org/images/file/93912902661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.couleurs-et-jardin.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072e82b1b2bc---jetalaruripulugaze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608075f4ae510---62917903386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mojer.bg/files/13216033481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.myjamaicais.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0e35dacc48dd1cd8821185f0720eff89/85758306344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fmpride.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/79eff258d7fbed87150b31a4d7b44a80/58335661963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://menafundinfo.com/userfiles/file/20942316229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aite-materials.com/upfiles/file/zalirofewopova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afba37834eb---60219111557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sghscsjamarai.org/guruhargobind/userfiles/file/domajegizetorifaxufose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8ksnnrb2l91ju4orft1pao5vu/28679598911.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_off0000f194.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF194 10472 bytes
SHA-256: 235e09849316ade38c10953b049eb309b3ec66aa8f8302e7f0beadd7abd85d87
font_01_sfnt_off00010994.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10994 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000121a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121A6 16744 bytes
SHA-256: 9527be078b174ff3dc27e4dddef5197cfe94d6ff7e002f8918356a6da4b2c8ab