Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a35e5de2ddc6d1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-04 13:50:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 5ceebc9bc9b8f50e8e9f1c98a1efa527 SHA-1: 11fafd8544250779ef558d36ba3b7e3891a0bddf SHA-256: 4a35e5de2ddc6d1fc41cc6a5611a7cf052aafeda6b600cdea3deb0f8a6d690d8
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or are part of a link farm on disposable hosting. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery through these links. The heuristic 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' suggests a lure to encourage user interaction with these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://sahamit.net/userfiles/file/namidiraxupilu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.agrosystem.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c5ecbd9d353---95668573873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58060229843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skazkavdom.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/40723493dc3e83fd69615b80e13f5be5/63606041960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24cvety.ru/upload/files/jotupozavufuguzof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skyfireconsulting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/kc414aj5g8bhc9napkgeci51d4/bamejarezidumowenexok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alubiasdetolosa.com/files/galeria/files/tifekekone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jahnigterbraak.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4e0e8b9e8a---91340786604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paymentsbusiness.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ce6218491e---83060302249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agribusiness.pk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160772831e3128---zanuzanaderaguluva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b8a4bbe6bcf---bumivexuwinegenewamirema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csc0532.com/userfiles/file/20210611102208_cgtdy5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akoseq9f.xn--p1ai/userfiles/file/43077383117.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tonwen.org/userfiles/file/53182068678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aqsclimited.com/EditorImages/file/58347982188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://yziact.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qq6aihmqsmpq8441vqmqd6kijf/famiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://takarasushimn.com/userfiles/files/19723993946.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driver-jazda.pl/upload/file/xuwadojuxerekalif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608410050d7ea---ratifidajuxefoperag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2478.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46223319756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandnewgoods.net/userfiles/file/pexogowezok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/22304069828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bb59f38b7c7---68557066446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bualuang101.com/backoffice/upload/files/pilerawof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=lector+de+pdf+a+word+onlinePDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d675.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD675 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 70ee830feeb67891e764246a8d0aa8a3bbd5544ddba3294f1a41d0b02ed39216
font_01_sfnt_off000103a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011bba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BBA 10488 bytes
SHA-256: 4c40b6108fad5cb4d35772655daaffd700a6a496f44be4c65e7dd8413d6944d9