Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a4866a65a33a2cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.1 KB Created: 2021-07-07 05:18:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 89fef8986473fdb5bcae227ffaf9fb5d SHA-1: 7f9a67165df6a95cc8c43f5904f70961d2221954 SHA-256: 4a4866a65a33a2cb1e4b7f56ad2d95e7fccc657b2c6ccd377cbe5b783eaa9f0e
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL patterns and heuristic firings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=chapter+6+meiosis+and+mendel PDF link annotation
    • http://akcjonariusz.com/UserFiles/file/xirevijofotidiwafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://az4group.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ab0a47dbaf---81881701666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reifenscho.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608059e813ce0---90048486784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.191seo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16087f66b5c3d7---rolupudonomiwixamotetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/xewofipoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wscnaturalhealings.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8db01da5fb2d8544d95b041f3ecba5a4/64691198649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reflectionuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rcg478pe7c9d3nbfljtsa4ea0l/paloxokesabeserazus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.canadiantreasurer.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ad6ae943d---wuretesibevopeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expresstestingatl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/730858a7fb1fc064428212c342d7a4e9/sutikokepukekosopiwenovul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ferienhof-schneider.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3069f52d46---47281657291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osc-pribor.ru/products_pictures/file/sojokelofuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.julitolaschools.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d7ab2b8e6b3---15117856954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tenniscanberra.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f45c70adc3---67627372342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.info/contents//files/54185973565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://securitydm.rs/slicice/file/tefusexelumewuwinemuxosew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coinproject.com/userfiles/image/file/44420603990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a6b31830d98---90589222162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catherinehourihan.art/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cce06338bcd70dd6f28ce62a1b20b29b/wesowiketusugusu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://weddingitaly.jp/images/file/barujuwoborakosetufiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ag-concept.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77a43ac445156e3868783e12cb20d261/60983512336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odnoklassniki-files.ru/images/uploads/files/85416642229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apricomm.com/userData/board/file/23919100498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1atlanticfunding.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbcfd740266---54838827251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://devcons.org/uploads/userfiles/files/lexukufolonavimirefin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blackshirts1962.com/clients/f/f2/f245580d3072b78cda2271cf7a7e3f61/File/sebivaselibupupixopetemo.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_off0000d7f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7F7 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 437f22ccacba4754b52e372383a983d8263a6a29db66a7b4b86fc0def011e46d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0E5 17496 bytes
SHA-256: 8aeccc28c3cefb94849c8ef81f614b76ba74f9fcfec06c95f4001dc663bc9406
font_02_sfnt_off00011ef2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11EF2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1