Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a283255077a6093…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 12:10:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: fc1d39f58d4c544b71de04fabce39e01 SHA-1: 94037c0b19ff0b4b43ba85fa72e43e252dcf3d8c SHA-256: 4a283255077a6093a943e6806245623555c4798f6cea0751f50e84ba018f24ec
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, specifically identified as a phishing trojan by ClamAV. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates an attempt to leverage these resources for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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=coffing+1+1%2F2+ton+chain+hoist+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://anandtouristcorporation.com/uploads/39572990032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071a2a0dd370---47886626182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pronobile.de/catalog/file/21212448103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itaindustrial.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a2a1f5f316d---fovoxinanewenekevasusipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ficsllc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/elde83caf6gl31up0fe3q69jpo/gavuvolatiperim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tasivn.com/upload/ck/files/11008612125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gcsystem.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160f9a10ec28b1---borirofilokede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://romento.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/rekaborunuzosulofegux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinacoma3.vn/userfiles/file/58906389626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neuchina.org/userfiles/file/76332676044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfielddeli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16157793246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nek.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e0bf7aaa9c5---88009043326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twfern.org/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210607011823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amthanhanhsangchinhhang.vn/upload/files/sofisexinumotewemaguni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avgdesign.com/userfiles/file/kukidubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alphasigmaoverseas.com/userfiles/file/gozoxagazavepasabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealskinz.ru/files/file/remuratojejevifapuvosumum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3dd74d5589---48650600629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ufh3dms0i1r4nsm8tsn5d7r7m9/34578588888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peaceinsrilanka.lk/userfiles/file/33091552315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://steakclubhn.com/campannas/file/fomiguxopalaluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://panegovernance.com/ourprojects/chowki/UserFiles/file/rafogula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ca86a3269d8da3384e158fdd4ff92187/90459508215.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_off0000c02f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC02F 17444 bytes
SHA-256: b649823b4073542af8fb0765fd1e45c3983dacda428edd1e2de58814c9a73ec4
font_01_sfnt_off0000edaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDAF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000105c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105C6 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 629e7b42d645fc7a88d6dfc28cd616059b0b77f1b28cf2b30673c4aad05e943e