Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a832b87bc2db3f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 23:41:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7da1d61be145b9fd6a74cce6451c8576 SHA-1: e254882258bcc69eaeb13a6f58cd10d79b4382b0 SHA-256: 4a832b87bc2db3f7424f658e5d4eb45c69a68101a335fa8bb93baba1de8ea17e
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting an attempt to host malicious content or phishing pages. The presence of external URIs and link farms indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt, potentially delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://optimumnieruchomosci.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/52447475329.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://transport-vehicules.fr/userfiles/file/72580537780.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16083263ba595b---91891973842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pa77r5hhabdnguh2t7p7rnd8h3/63949078153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5bch3akdqilcd5jbeg08cec0q8/23328971270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://braintradingbcn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c790cc8be96ffb4f5029a34420cdab7e/60928540059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://burstallconrad.com/editor_files/file/pisijefalufakizudopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aca6ed3913a---sagunoxixixola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ismart99.net/upload/files/tuwejifilizo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fastgood4cheap.com/clients/4890/File/63143182260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coxfamilyreunions.com/clients/5/56/566bc9ad745482f371977770c3e6b383/File/zalinul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sharpeningfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099bd70373e5---54616429669.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63a784c4bc9545d5d29ad116b0e8a145/42655515386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badrivishal.com/media/lebabiwepulafijunufajakov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jongauger.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/desaxogelojiribobujisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/tuxizogujiwimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prtourusa.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210715_3F52A284104F521C.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.chicagoalphas.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607700792d5c3---81572256001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saamfactory.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/25f9409a32c0dd03565b680b4a31ae85/ludidimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cor.org.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/j9747flef7hevo256h86k81sgl/zipenelitobex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.insurancedirectcanada.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdcf1f05735---sefekagiduzel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dogandemir.av.tr/paketler/ckfinder/dosyalar/files/goteb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.phoenixdentalacademy.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3a8a9a3dd1eb932adae285a09db0324a/sarikuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=quality+engineer+questions+and+answersPDF 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_off0000f29a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF29A 17872 bytes
SHA-256: ffa9ada062ce64f873a04fb3bd0da7d857e9836c821eb15445db0f8541a88752
font_01_sfnt_off0001214b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1214B 10928 bytes
SHA-256: 88fc7cae578cf12627a60fe54c1ca4cb438457d05a96e0c0548b80129799a0cb
font_02_sfnt_off00013a61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13A61 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1