Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a447d4835b856e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.9 KB Created: 2021-09-23 19:16:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 88dda3196300fd1f3e0a099eb7b55dd7 SHA-1: 86d277da9398793da5e1ed6fbed797104a12f4b5 SHA-256: 4a447d4835b856e029f2c00ab21b9c6c12f2992502b1a634a1d9a44b7b5a38de
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics identified it as a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting. The document body was unreadable, but the presence of numerous links suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9835

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://velvetskin.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a985a8bb7efdcd172cdf80b46b4b95b8/60970904198.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://hostingureitings.lv/uploads/userfiles/files/80392789879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artospace.com/pics/file/61239552680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/dimegadowijekeganujuxival.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jonnesway-indonesia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jedawofavotewokodafukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://investmentskillsgroup.com/images/userfiles/file/31976711688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pet.nfe.go.th/m_site/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mojaxogakunokini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusunceokulu.net/resimler/files/26806464825.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hnsunnyfood.com/d/files/46834879975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://deycaterers.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12719840373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianfonmm.com/d/files/24170045240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czechdidgeridoo.com/admin/upload/file/97771772554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://el-system.jp/uploads/2012/files/82032526213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiomalpocher.it/userfiles/files/dadopalatajupazuwaguziro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiscalonline.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/kipotaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pes.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nefoximejojulobofidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://valenciamaids.com/userfiles/files/62814446576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jacsonsfurniture.com/userfiles/file/zuniw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matrix-corporation.com/upfiles/editor/files/jimofawozaletuxolewogox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gmonlinestore.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613f1609a68a8---24522952366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://demo.wsbe17hongkong.hk/_bin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pamosavumexogude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komodovo.ru/upload_picture/93956128471.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eol.org.pe/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31336903727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas2.com/contents/files/75208501505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drop-lok.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137a5decffd0---56143572908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitparaguay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fetemafagaguram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenconcord.com/uploads/files/bakupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=best+android+phone+under+10000+in+pakistanPDF 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_off0000ea4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA4C 10864 bytes
SHA-256: aa361cfaaa39c51dfe192c8057f70ee69530aaf18c1a718477b88b4c27174498
font_01_sfnt_off0001035f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1035F 17620 bytes
SHA-256: 3b2e50bb66d0c1c4cf8c735b249871effbbf6870fca937994b8dd443b1176b51
font_02_sfnt_off00013170.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13170 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1