Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a7ac84519c164c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-19 21:19:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 48ce741687e6ba1f6bbad5b26bac747e SHA-1: aaeec074ca9821bb546f4dc84b853c28fd5ce0d2 SHA-256: 4a7ac84519c164c48961adbf8ea9db83ae68d17f1cd1d14173c421cfc69a6797
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and other disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The embedded URLs and the PDF structure itself are indicative of an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9983

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 https://aluminiosarla.com/userfiles_arla/files/pomagetubufira.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://chsins.tw/uploads/files/202109020106214626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thunderesp.com/ckfinder/ckfinder.htmlfiles/98140288533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inspirationallabels.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16137121b27958---dogabazudelex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julieesteban.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139e61761690---34898963598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanyachts.it/writable/public/userfiles/file/rasenuvimimid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hatinhjobs.com/upload/files/gexawujopidagil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laetitiabernard.fr/images/file/vagavuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sabancilojistik.com/userfiles/file/pikijilegegol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alpinashop.bg/files/dipifin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://astdubai.co/userfiles/files/damafizadaworadefivekuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turasmobilya.com/img/editor/image/file/nuxaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://selectwifi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612faa34353c2---dodegubobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://arc-en-cielproduce.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vugajev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonio-pelella.eu/userfiles/files/58707553145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aromata.ru/upload/files/nosekolivawumagorufivaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bistro-8.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c1311cbb21db47e4a7e4429e45a63e20/dunewigewafapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://forglory.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63529112379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://levne-pohary.cz/UserFiles/File/61600914834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braviengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r61tk8i7ggok75n8kp5ap5d03l/1566982173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://40parables.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dfe50d4e9b5408c9b68b5d26c1662f76/tovuvovon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nandishoverseas.com/UserFiles/File/22961067614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amrapalispot.com/userfiles/file/57961800084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rjbmachinery.com/d/files/302824560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vakantie-noordlimburg.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28753254683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=bohemian+rhapsody+film+streamPDF 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_off0000ca44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA44 10932 bytes
SHA-256: 57ac5edf4cc00b8b6081576e09c7bd043e9948386f240061287b45281a4fdb9a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e36d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE36D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB7F 19296 bytes
SHA-256: bb373883e962a915935342a50c91a1e09a2a820b6706aed644ce7faccb4da375