Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a014240ce4041fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.6 KB Created: 2021-09-03 13:49:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cd07b67e0695ea04bfa429ba5da9e5b8 SHA-1: b3e4a75eef397c0857a3fea50ab4f54eeb73ecd3 SHA-256: 4a014240ce4041fbd21182eff15620dc2b7075ec29ec27c3568365309ee22888
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous external URIs and links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting it functions as a link farm. These links are likely intended to lead users to phishing pages or download further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=geometry+reviewer+for+entrance+exam+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://okinawa4d.com/contents//files/loguroterofak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfuturevietnam.com/Upload/files/2970581894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d5dfb6e91ea---jigumagijexavavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coachtourbusrental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8257732647---gogogevoxulugen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://myhoorayhealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ia1ejphsmulh8cc439t35jhhk2/lofosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuizpyy.com/upload_fck/file/2021-5-1/20210501081249396520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freedomhypnosisnyc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9129a9f1ffc7647ce344b8d96f3cc4eb/80126050632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://changrung.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/75486476107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ilovegabal.net/fckeditor/_upload/file/jubobowakixasurigazine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/wurupedelotafaluwabo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constructionone.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094f68426dc5---mamifipewabigusebipok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://galluccifaibano.com/userfiles/file/10030021839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aweibel.com/Photo/file/jusewapilixaxiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theprojectmanagement.guru/cote_dor_import/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9149718072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faulkfamilync.com/clients/c/cc/ccb94402b1eed20a0583117be0c0b506/File/mezotepuvesep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fruzsiflame.hu/userfiles/file/pivam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniondeautoescuelas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610fa94d55c68---nomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uni-farm.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98080207888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://holzbau-napetschnig.at/82658124411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kperrylaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/numuxovoxepodunovebabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derey.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/74507785984.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.spoton.pet/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jai2ekurqot1t8d9eqgsduagpb/93388838511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3fc42c03f6---49539766756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plasy.com/uploads/file/34833867995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagelogs.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ft3ctc55lit76lm30c12p49e36/kuxenajuzuwowepelijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amfmeg.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f14eb914fd---61782766736.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_off0000dc22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC22 19076 bytes
SHA-256: 30bb4f263e815bfd07bb9b66c21f8e174fd31df1513dbc87d0297b78129198da
font_01_sfnt_off00010e22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E22 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012639.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12639 10972 bytes
SHA-256: fdc1d4bdbcbd8a1a0fb17139ddd842d97cecec792442dbc72b79594b699bda1a