Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a6552f037e32d20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-09-02 16:28:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: b7171aa1eed78107ec2a67fa2a7612ba SHA-1: 397720ad35f892b78947e0b8324126e56fe07714 SHA-256: 4a6552f037e32d200d270ccc169c32e02a660171df424130746ca920753b393f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160807f4cf1ee8---mawabekavaramureve.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.hptindia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610330152571b---86825477971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vsetinrally.cz/userfiles/file/xopena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reliancecareuk.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/21ee88af484d4c0f51709f6a19592de7/jenurulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiarsolutions.com/userfiles/file/pafilijugojewufotavav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balogmihaly.hu/UserFiles/file/wivemurowumogubirizozepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.toptalentusa.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611ffed6d5d9f---98323274060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arc-welding.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/74tua6gn3101lcuea91vq9f0ag/37048530204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://triple-a.co.th/ckfinder/userfiles/files/66948123487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n95america.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a475a4dfc082ffd35959918535dc21cb/taranawutotatiroga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanahana.vn/media/ftp/file/22427634054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klinok-saintp.ru/files/75561696390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pietri-automobiles.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gr9l61bdn44svjn7tanph364ht/88382520432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/41659881802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bobas24.pl/Upload/file/83745039857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stellabakingcompany.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2e3e0964a7---gabowamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spazmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16074ab3449c9a---rijemovarinimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://law.myvzl.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gsd6hdlkpqc8tmk96o7jk0s63n/wedawasubifefisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evabody.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086c251dcbab---59403501987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verpoort-bouw.be/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611b5e84b4d9d---70849220820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teusz.pl/UserFiles/file/vufezuposimajuradibivabuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sirikulsteel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160fe4c0bba252---33004244369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kheops-so.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tanorowirarumuvim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.projectorrentals.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160731a79c2a7b---90516431200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c9d7266d59---digakisomojukujitakor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=audi+r8+spyder+interior+manualPDF 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_off0000d802.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD802 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 5916c110d74836838188026c4b7ae80e25491ac3ffda138c618ead309ec86605
font_01_sfnt_off0000f173.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF173 18348 bytes
SHA-256: 4b4b956b7e3438523cbefcf16f3b1eb8f755b97e1ac3ce7ee72ccdffc6b38899
font_02_sfnt_off0001214b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1214B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1