Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a48a40e37f35f91…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.9 KB Created: 2021-09-02 22:14:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: e5d80541a6cc4a7b83d17042c3ba1ac4 SHA-1: f7cc7b6aca2a6823073edb4d4ff2eb748aba966d SHA-256: 4a48a40e37f35f9190bb7115314c6b5bf7cbd8d94090cf72dc99be6381394bd5
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. ClamAV detection and ML classification strongly suggest malicious intent. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic points towards a phishing or malware distribution scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://panda-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/bunitumuwotizuzepuk.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://amsaneeraus.fi/userfiles/files/2588604668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://m-isc.com/userfiles/file/29369848074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bellamy.tw/uploads/files/202108251356128318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cottoneauto.it/userfiles/files/fevudoligafimosajefixasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logistra.fr/ressource/site-image/files/23026581631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thelawchamber.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160984c55476a5---gofen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.drivingschool-brno.cz/files/files/kevikedeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fields-on-earth.com/josasikusuziriwuvegalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunrui-ti.com/d/files/wovonixafobelimekoxefewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmnet.cz/ckfiles/files/files/26813435732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gv2gt9pp7o1iqflogp1trcpbfu/fejebovokuwizoxed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilatheshow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jitaterimoreki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ltgtrends.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bf9a0e7e97a3b984ee78d72901dc9f86/31812338360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://getlovebooks.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89c4d5120e49cdd2f27251f895ebb6a6/volabeninezojabetaxoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nc2e.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c145f2cecb---linoxovonasetebekuvutemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nuricomuvakfi.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5u84ssfq9jcgeg0ttdvdquset0/76830322784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nacyc.jp/Upload/file/xuzekilefomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/90548593809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ba79bf32cef---33066403308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kizkulesikizogrenciyurdu.com/public/ckfinderuploads/files/voxisoterufalifamenuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jonkmp.nl/img/cms/file/70701013593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-antwerp.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160806d16dd000---21817017952.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vildmarksjagt.dk/userfiles/file/77366276143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f257b36e623c43dd8cbc9887a0b7e503/nanomizuwalikapiwew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=the+three+musketeers+pdf+alexandre+dumasPDF 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_off000164ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x164ED 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 4f16d6971e9eb99ea375a74c5f342fdc81e8fd55db653adcee2a9f86dace14ab
font_01_sfnt_off00017db8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17DB8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000195ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x195CA 21728 bytes
SHA-256: 66a062863b0fb06b8cef91b0f2da0b77cfc7c4c5d979c574253280101763dd09