Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a71ae2d7f63087e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.2 KB Created: 2021-09-02 19:47:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 78a81a0a5a86a95bc19723020422258c SHA-1: 7616c1afd79db0ede9189d2e9a979d14d2a59259 SHA-256: 4a71ae2d7f63087ee6308b2c9ae87967077c02a09521e6800b297cee6c9c2b64
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier. It contains numerous links pointing to potentially compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, further obscuring its true intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://newgrids.com/userfiles/file/fibowexa.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086e0fc29d92---89410041937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esportenerd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58856517448.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://borderpak.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f7e6ef3b9d755319b56e8505c052c4d8/42187912817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kurtoglumob.com/upload/file/kugurejovadelakafokuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/456574937126a51626a29b96c73953f1/62858954875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://potya.com/gujinaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventensis.lt/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24751537577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonapoolcontractor.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c3c36479634---95246823539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arizonalightingsales.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2fd2877f5f93d405ade3195bcd3a086c/53154271964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lentes123.com/aym_image/files/73592654071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congtyvima.com/images/Download/mesubokabisoxenevozoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selfmadefilms.nl/userfiles/files/65991462107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://museeducuir.org/upload/files/mozos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bastola.org/userfiles/file/vatoxavugevekeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/sixitirap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sir.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090bfeb0fd8f---1240227688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68866587623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuonnhanh.vn/Images_upload/files/74325027371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hagensmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ad5427ef1c---75040844336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cherryontop.pl/upload/fotki/file/34570882583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://okvin.org/userfiles/file/48258684767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barrarioservicos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608636e854f29---2008128147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgadsahodayatarntaran.org/sahodyatarntarannew/userfiles/file/11877825870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=lab+attendant+result+pdfPDF 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_off0000c633.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC633 17248 bytes
SHA-256: b9db16acea94490fea83f40679c74ad22eadce8f8634dfc19e245f0b376f1258
font_01_sfnt_off0000f317.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF317 10476 bytes
SHA-256: ec37d31930ddefda2b75465d737bc85e8ce527d12336b74721de61513a4ea4d4
font_02_sfnt_off00010ad1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1