Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a759836d0ed2e83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-09-17 05:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 34f7c1729dd93674e3e9fda4e9a9bfa3 SHA-1: 45d6cd16e2ca1f847eb64ee9f1dd02a22b668876 SHA-256: 4a759836d0ed2e837d9685572f4693b5fef18ce179ebbb22f405f4603c33943d
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress uploads and disposable hosting sites, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous external URIs and the 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic confirm the link farm strategy.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 https://ketchas.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cute+phone+themes+for+android PDF link annotation
    • http://akvari-um.ru/userfiles/file/pagipod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dansungsala.com/uploads/files/wokixasaxupubaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greshamgilessalon.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfc28222cb3e1b8f820c967b942593d3/todofawumuxosexeziw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tutorlookup.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/watesatamugalefabat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aspit.ro/imagini_ws/9431265478.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenworx.eu/images/uploads/files/69494274761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jin-ji.com/upload/files/fibawabedizekowanumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginniglobal.com/uploads/file/71712218057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobydick-band.de/fckdata/file/18149388387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lixtech.com.tw/ckfinder/ckfiles/files/3861115929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://confidenzacsapagy.hu/upload/51567173834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ardiinerkh.mn/uploads/userfiles/files/91617479553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pn-tech.net/userData/board/file/bufobagifodeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koslita.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93997074902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://genesisbehaviorcenter.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/413990021cdb1fc6134e46f3fbcb81f0/14501940691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rem-proekt.com/f/file/miviroxebupil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sententtech.com/file_media/file_image/file/zofirogowivujusuva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleannshieldflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a802e7543dcefc6f4be148ae7f38109/23530849657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basyapiemlak.com/yukleme_klasoru/userfiles/file/6234289777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insight-assessment.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pomakewuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ccveg.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/khlavu718i66e32ca111qeaj94/tekop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shiraz.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68198921320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://desense.eu/uploads/wysiwyg/files/bofusumaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000c949.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC949 17980 bytes
SHA-256: 38977f607637c4b5c08b7a61f94d0a44697af543e7e80df2425cfbf71f8f960b
font_01_sfnt_off0000f7e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011000.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11000 10848 bytes
SHA-256: a02baf9f665f89569b0fb5804051adac726a7f9cae9082e0eecb602e5a82f0fa