Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a0d89c1eac5ae51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.6 KB Created: 2021-07-06 09:55:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: c683db0199ab1a1eb2692e03785eea70 SHA-1: c16989f0d2bbbbe7eea11c7548cd9d1d1bd793b2 SHA-256: 4a0d89c1eac5ae51bb80a46cd508e83b03d2d38d21d690cf805f5d8cbba0b18a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains, suggesting it functions as a link farm to distribute malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure indicate an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9851

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://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+hunter+call+of+the+wild+cheat+engine+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://lyshiying.com/d/files/13763465093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eaa775355ae0ae2fdc015933011253c0/vowevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16080f3e6903f2---puzusotufudobedolidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alenakovalchuk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e5b50746b947927c957974848a1e05bd/75943934126.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nnrhc.com/clients/9/98/980d61ede38c9a35fe3396fb65651545/File/31317233560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifestyleufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/06ea4dc6f7d7f7da7fbe006e81171014/godojexojifidotenit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jnfarley.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4hl7evsp6jd47qs4mtve9pkgv2/64524211163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.modianodesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083fe2ccbefb---66505630572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c72dcf7a26be7f22727f6be1b9723c21/15943373064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.higher-energy-trampolineclub.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ab71632c342---sibibilukiwibomedose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://westcoastmovers.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0ok05khkg5g9ie3425q8ncvnv6/molanugavexaxukim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078d11f247aa---91915456147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16079bd08c3b04---52481213959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ce70ad830c---kuxikiwaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tryinvest.eu/userfiles/files/selowezowuwodatibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://areshin.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9fc34788779bea6f4748c6ef2aa1df1/wirosisakosazofer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adabaskimerkezi.com/upload/file/38286339340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourdesign.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bofojutaliwezuwesup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sensible-seeds-premium.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607e536313586---67524147967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ptesggbfd85dkltkv5irlavba2/70784348400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://neavocats.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2029530c455d2280aa336e43cc0d1eab/kitudenenimeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.certificagreen.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b4a1d44942b---98429748609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prunay-en-yvelines.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/23698327907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/98r4j01ejamgt0nk49tdt96m87/mekufixekopopunubaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aae583b19ef---30516888044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hrmconsulting.biz/upload/files/konadivabunufitet.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_off0001675b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1675B 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 943bb263b752439483ecb8232846a337261c3379361e0886911cc2a25cd3f9e0
font_01_sfnt_off00019779.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19779 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001af90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AF90 10980 bytes
SHA-256: 97a76487e72b8591aa111e6d527a79ef69d92f787628ca0f11cff72c04da8e31