Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a8443fe32e0ebec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.4 KB Created: 2021-07-22 01:42:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0cacdb8e0d6ffd41eb6ff66bdd289ff1 SHA-1: 184f5c3cedad00938b1772dd8de956cea8a13c1b SHA-256: 4a8443fe32e0ebecc5351ad5d937bd36d8956c458e994c11e3a5b4c4b27bab8a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. Heuristics identify it as a link farm, with many URLs pointing to potentially compromised or disposable hosting. The document body is unreadable, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a lure to external malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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://leunamgroup.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4eca60bbcaf6c5c53fb218465dae6edb/nojozis.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://semagro-msw.ru/pics/images/file/jabasifimudiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lashmakerpro.it/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lhq0uanke00ruq9brdrbm1qlk3/36955189396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rc-modeller.se/images/file///zajetuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bfe86946334---xuxajitumumiwoketejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kalkulacka-hypo.cz/userfiles/files/junazuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://daiichitravel.com/uploads/news_file/89152105625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lakecountyoralsurgery.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ceada0d3321---matukezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrsgladysosei.com/clients/f/fd/fd76c46f75d01f7adbe86f52c2a5b8c1/File/xudipexegobaxumuputekola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.infranetltd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092600140c88---madam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globeksa.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25612987406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.com/contents//files/25391166018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://techscreening.com/userfiles/files/lowukimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frigosztufi.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96224965846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wurstfargo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8356e45429da06750933ab500c05b379/86748883639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609dac31abbbb---wozoxow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tungalag.mn/userfiles/files/durefivozowixideperakaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olivierdaulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56608872991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cambodiadriverservice.com/userfiles/file/bunifel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juniorsmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160878884ecd70---86222747089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popcouncilinstitute.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c67cd54d6ee2534c5ef6624789b819b2/78385344052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://n-zvuk.ru/upload/file/zerogawurulasul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chsbicentennialclassof1976.com/clients/c/c2/c283bfa2537a82fb79a670aa087b4bd4/File/26913166135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=write+the+following+in+set+builder+formPDF 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_off0000eb2e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB2E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010345.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10345 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 56b8278ec10ed51acf0714937ffccc6d60610929ec7c34c541589bbabda7cbe5
font_02_sfnt_off00011c4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C4D 18068 bytes
SHA-256: fe16a4616cf4ee255e89d46b455cd43fc38d602bece346095ba28d86e5f6cc31