Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a7ade4b176f1c34…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-08-29 04:25:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9b33635b9849365ef52c08050e050b4c SHA-1: 1c6c0282c45ccb36b99183f3ff1ca3d0aeee4846 SHA-256: 4a7ade4b176f1c346563d5d09fb0786a55a83a1b6948d67f2e72bffe8320aad9
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting domains, likely intended to lure users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://feldmann-spedition.de/pics/userfiles/file/19746638763.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://dixietemporarystorage.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4d14192143a409bc3661c4600bc05eec/werivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bestlifepolicy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ae3b50dc734---63579549593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ce026795f82b447af33ca7a821c0c133/xekakovinarofefabewir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waterlootour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210701_3871F234D0A3D007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://orthopediedelft.eu/files/nekolukami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forkidsvietnam.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ngotf3jmun62u2b9ug5ibhvm7l/38155445890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://outspokenholland.com/userfiles/fckFile/20210525014240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://broodjedenbosch.nl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37948033589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbamantra.com/ci/userfiles/files/43683481930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jl-vacuum.com/upload/files/ruzediz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://utopiasacramento.org/clients/0/07/071cdeedc048305be324eb10ab8031d4/File/liraro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16077746d07e3e---22137774761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pttaccounting.com/userfiles/files/77684790863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1975geegees.com/clients/78603/File/bedazovokokodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.luminicaambiental.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611cdf7c4ce18---pabubavazurexilikif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mos-craciun-inchiriere.ro/fckfiles/file/wagut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://canadiancontractorservices.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/icp217s3tebs1nt26jsaobi3m7/40115933178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raunlarose.us/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098762745ba2---vumifelipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotnewsmd.deca.md/upload/userfiles/files/65451681174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aromamarketing.md/img/files/17502630667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thedreaminitiative.org/Content/Admin/uploads/files/94931090266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lumisolar.pe/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6656cc508b---fawemedapuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=planets+and+roman+godsPDF 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_off0000d737.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD737 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 1f088cef8ff2c044143b81fad297edb18597bcda78b08c49acc68eb54cf96c20
font_01_sfnt_off0000eee5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE5 17148 bytes
SHA-256: a6377deaaac1e8f54dfca1e781b5900d3432d69ab410d7a21771fa0d54ea462f
font_02_sfnt_off00011ad1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11AD1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1