Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a2b37e049e8783a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.6 KB Created: 2021-09-07 01:50:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: f101adddd6f1db4978f332b6e1a3e140 SHA-1: 7efdf321ca847bbdcf535a113340274f5236c967 SHA-256: 4a2b37e049e8783ab99072af81884138818fc52ee11c36112d49642eab6d0575
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised WordPress installations, suggesting a link farm designed to direct users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution intent. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://crysiq.ru/uplcv?utm_term=spectra+s9+instruction+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://tirthmobile.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qirkr8t3o3s37uq49664qb7g00/89120343173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://independentmusicleague.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fea6127bb70aee1a35259f046a6f968e/vosagodasagutojaworufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bc658e1351be4c0505d2bb655dc6a06b/88638313333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://etre-belle.su/images/file/17783850489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mkbeauty.vn/luutru/files/xanegefete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elemonbg.com/Files/File/12339998099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://madison62alumni.com/clients/e/e8/e84cd6a5166dbe8c5f6852bff763f4b2/File/82288239520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vnationwide.com/userfiles/files/rolatonatudutefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://one9five.com/userfiles/files/96290552493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dadosefatos.net.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16097e365229a7---luluwewifabipiwafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zawayakw.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cba5ed9d52---nufemunowefazis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d1da64a45---pimamikukubitobojuvaber.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emergent-partners.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607af70caeed7---9128860441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gowowdeli.com/uploads/files/21826403980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hopefor.today/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/279e38bc83d0f51a88b8ebe44a421ebf/xafuzafupipakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharemadinah.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a60ce0e2d9b---40686004345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog//file/lipawolupefefimibadanawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baaningdoi.com/file_media/file_image/file/fukegirul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://profil-metall.de/content/uploads/file/51889244737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laihouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3206d084c585d69e4c87862298d4e3f8/gozedabovuvewaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d18ac529fa---wejamebefarupisiruzipemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b7d9d9deb51---60046293650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ausafrica.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16115861e09df2---wizajevanugaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldnumber.info/userfiles/file/35446379987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thediethub.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16085e11ad5550---dobutadumusinejewutigap.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_off0000ec13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC13 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010425.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10425 18164 bytes
SHA-256: 374429c832e73d0606559397752f3674a5ec8fceaa3accc8ed284657a670f61a
font_02_sfnt_off00013370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13370 10876 bytes
SHA-256: f27e64852060616e63340abfc96934958d1ed546f0db073df975e92152142792