Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a73545357613f9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.9 KB Created: 2021-09-17 10:13:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 772c38ac7ec179d5665fc1190e0e51f2 SHA-1: 45acf0c10ad304e4337fed59eefd78487dd40edc SHA-256: 4a73545357613f9a883ff670e9a31dcbf5b54005617ae9991140131d6b463d60
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate this PDF is malicious. It functions as a link farm, directing users to multiple compromised websites, including those hosted on WordPress upload storage. The presence of numerous unknown URLs suggests an attempt to distribute malware or conduct phishing attacks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9912

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://cesvil.it/filesUploads/file/52285471611.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://photo-ostrov.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rugepopojogajiwukidele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.seblocation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88453351894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161411003ea1de---kowuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://confeccionesruiz.cl/UserFiles/File/68681396095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mayphoviet.com/media/ftp/file/41409480750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gespk.com/userfiles/file/73043353205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grundys.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dbf723a33d---xefowetonipipelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alariel.be/userfiles/file/mesuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--78-6kce7dfhb9dwb.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2b15d4bdee5caf7101250821ff118f6b/nefozovavox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://klenderbio.com/upload/files/98262940331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pegastelco.com/pictures/files/73283518350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thesnowmanicecream.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nitapebuluwunoputi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://humanistbeauty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tlvasrq665f2hffa0uie33ra99/60749617453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lt101shop.com/userfiles/files/tebimatusidovolafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--80aaijzh9b.xn--90ae/documents/file/mosogokixabesubuduv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subded.org/userfiles/file/tadosap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://i-intelli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24655487855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gauravkankariya.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2f8ab082944c3401b7b05649ee968fcf/degukiwusararure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jhdjt.com/images/upload/File/nifekeboriloxawowarigap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limsurempat.com/contents/files/95142178477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnt52.ru/userfiles/file/ruxexidimixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rapet.hu/files/gebepazazojagelotifow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vanprodukt.cz/UserFiles/File/33601586669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7foro.exceltur.org/exceltur_nuevo/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vufedewener.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eyescare.vn/app/webroot/upload/ckfinder/files/dubiwujoxuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=push+notification+android+example+codePDF 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_off0000f378.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF378 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010b8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B8F 11088 bytes
SHA-256: b61cc7b3e265703648b8fd89a240c9633a64f3f5cc5faf2f784071c6cb27b647
font_02_sfnt_off0001254d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1254D 18552 bytes
SHA-256: c78b31c0a85f07e179146bc5d3e8090a5bf1cb06b1c3b682822a4c382fa86e06