Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a5a9852d78889f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.4 KB Created: 2021-09-21 15:35:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: f8ee81897e420d5418e8bf5fb5c341ce SHA-1: 5d4b52c77017d6f572c110df69fc5405338a469a SHA-256: 4a5a9852d78889f40c9210aef04304aaf12f0fea067fc0be3d6fd5d09a851484
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of phishing and hosting numerous links to potentially compromised sites. The presence of a 'download button' lure and callback phishing pretext suggests an attempt to trick the user into downloading a secondary payload. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and unreadable.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://anapro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31323014983.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://adikkeempat.com/contents/files/fadotogizarexegibomefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmszke.hu/files/file/46637990509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbndn5at.xn--p1ai/uploads/files/guzigabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.gml.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613969fb14c6f---98095983617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.adcgrain.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dbcb3cbb5da022130f937315295a8486/kuvinan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maysoi.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/39242471632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://canoto.us/Images_upload/files/74817005369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnaixi.com/userfiles/file/20210908230802_1507516449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kentacademymiango.com/userfiles/file/53413055385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fabiocaronearchitetto.com/userfiles/files/tawonajiwijuniwowiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://formapolis.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/90afd8c30e05e2a3e68f27a643580db6/98632617758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.area-tlc.com/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/32290605386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chagatea.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cc4e15c45463846f4078ff79a34c1fc3/37436092352.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://picinterior.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/7760354489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dworbieland.pl/userfiles/file/79543565136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nibrasimansch.com/userfiles/files/3441754748.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baust.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vitumuxugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cowichanmusicfestival.com/userfiles/file/sosuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jlsxjy.com/right/UploadFile/file///2021091012135573499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adfaveo.com/image/files/20210920_161304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kibledergisi.net/resimler/files/vorosodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasantitosrestaurant.com/userfiles/file/9965879649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=bhool+bhulaiyaa+full+movie+downloadPDF 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_off0000e1b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1B3 10812 bytes
SHA-256: 607bd05bdc850bbbf7638a1f46debdc9cc08011b150b747302c20efd6ca2b119
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa75.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA75 17724 bytes
SHA-256: a780c94a06a79e17836e52ed5de81b0182eda8877051eed10776cce34a851377
font_02_sfnt_off000127d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127D0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1