Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a973b999a16b201…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.0 KB Created: 2021-09-02 14:52:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 53efb5cfd95f565a2bfc306fbb0a35c2 SHA-1: e38175d1c8b835249c30387b7f0a3d5bf21e7965 SHA-256: 4a973b999a16b20188320dd61c9e8300ce551bdb00cee05805d26823dd330264
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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 http://mko-yug.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9f92762b7927ee052f08c27bfd548410/lozesegegigarapem.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://aulacvn.com/upload/fck/file/dubuxesozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anmoul.com/userfiles/file/fodagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/lekugoxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hobbes-group.com/upload/files/53260765439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/nikaguremomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sip7.pl/autoinstalator/sip7.online/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c9327f51abe26c703d6d4cbb746ddb1a/37872361960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tcufroghouses.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a59580821e6---76946096015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://puppometalli.eu/file/roboxawivezobijubifujajug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3duct.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16098c00432866---vufaloged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogologistics.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96995104022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diversecityuk.com/userfiles/file/puladaxebotutilenoxexijab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shoreluxurylimos.com/userfiles/files/76651293123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gaviprintpack.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608740c867833---ruzixerafedox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://provisionsinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160765f3c0d45c---tarofixesejugifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yizhu580.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bowixunadolerolupav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganan10.co.il/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d9186dcdcdd---90976138746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edilgroupdigiovanni.it/userfiles/files/32183750284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/17842103493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-sheremet.com/img/dixenajakani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610788230e3e1---55209455873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eb27294557472b82a29d32ee59caf43d/jubojivubezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cortabellanews.com/userimages/mexenimuvupotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stardentalcare.org/userfiles/file/wuvix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=math+worksheet+with+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_off0000db78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB78 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f38f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF38F 10332 bytes
SHA-256: e301d5862ac69933b6e51b7bef0bcacaf9625874e3c433966a83e29888374359
font_02_sfnt_off00010aea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AEA 18344 bytes
SHA-256: 2e8329109f4d136679d86c8d755894c555fcd48e558ce8e4f4e651c3728781e5