Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a405544a05079fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.0 KB Created: 2021-07-07 08:17:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: c481237bb3165dd24f3cacb2d0ff20f8 SHA-1: 9585e8bb4661ce5c0ca21f11e0a33cf4d9f2b487 SHA-256: 4a405544a05079fbfa3340345ad3194531a4f15ef3bf34cf19fb8b15831f9185
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, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of numerous external URIs and links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage suggests a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body is unreadable, but the heuristics indicate a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=office+2019+product+key+free+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.sempresaude.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607782cb11ef1---50636181895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.vivelamusica.es/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a02c2512bf3---68465536057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16093cc003a5c2---kozimixamofoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkting.com.co/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cfb92c1651286eb9c2f71842821be20e/danevipugekilipad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6d363eb074---misefiloxubiputafufovexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byty-pardubice.eu/UserFiles/File/jagivakipaboboguraja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evocative.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd0c6a0caf8---82642976437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engineeredrepinc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c187f47395b711a72542262d4d33ab5e/38585520563.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.multigacos.com/admin/uploaded/fck/file/81587998847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c0cf1118f36---83392866489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.idenet.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091c8ca65b0e---kegulapakanoviwelifapij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://777mto.info/contents//files/34369022904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/14923501695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0620946a87fbd5749ff46a9e0841eb75/66592575228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4t4upueuhpq80n8kj5ts3lm6li/38783894928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://king-pro.com/userfiles/files/14321548710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lavalledesign.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e3602d8a6c---86731725044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fixafilm.se/userfiles/file/janugomolezikadaruzaziwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dreamscapes.ca/dream_scapes/userfiles/files/fovobixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discoverapartmentsforrent.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9679273d2af7df69d8f5234acbf2d334/78610234543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vswet.ru/f/81061448996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adhdadvisory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b59b55cdfa---kaxineme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bo0v3kubh7lb73r2ddgpcemkr/sononofiroduwos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auapp.ch/userfiles/files/81315484736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.oschouston.com/osc/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b256d976968---92555007250.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_off0000f50d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF50D 10924 bytes
SHA-256: 4e9f0bc1994717438075f7ff23c624b62063e20c662bf3ae7c6d7871dbbc3290
font_01_sfnt_off00010e9c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E9C 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 8508794040dfdfa953a40d19d52f83acab76b5402a427afa1d626e8ef2261cfa
font_02_sfnt_off00013cc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13CC8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1