Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a9a428981ea819a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.0 KB Created: 2021-09-16 22:17:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 3ffd6424890dd3244e212c6f87d258da SHA-1: 74e23423c5000c4533f00ad5b251b6931989ee66 SHA-256: 4a9a428981ea819a3d987bf45c1c8a36a347fb627b1de575e476184e3c05ba89
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress upload directories, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics indicate the document is intended to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=snack+video+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://fitnessrev.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8o42tlsdblgt0c4gg6qkgpu3k2/12649065399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laundrybyconrads.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/21069681738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zenakivani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getampedmag.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15549638883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saatyapi.com/upload/ckfinder/files/42569185672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epagneuls-bretons.fr/caningest/images/file/63250059974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wskinbody.com/data/boardData/files/lejaxanusiwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.srijonihealinghome.com/fckimages/file/22666464651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supair-lux.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11979455304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amirafouad.com/uploaded_files/file/61668609938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ceylanotel.com/firma/files/dusadogemofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kiteschule-eckernfoerde.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d04dd2b3b2---94778095134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.elstar.ru/uploads/files/19095580992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://watfordfairtrade.org/app/webroot/img/files/lurenoximedekopulume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.realisthotel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161355fc36ac3d---kilakuxufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/82gq8igkfac987e0paocr5l469/38638613983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asigurareingermania.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8qlt8oqv6s0q7bgg6u0st70dbn/75008706326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abaco-engineering.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ddfa5587d0---mexukudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirembeestate.co.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613dd1010bba2---karumugepabanas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stockholmswingallstars.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161389514c3f9d---xasuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://victory-agency.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613792eda6bcd---33956246759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thaitofu.com/image/upload/File/63792400957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.platformliften.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139897e8b09e---bixorefasopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unimedbelem.com.br/painel_template/assets/global/plugins/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/jigesotizipiwisokurag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • 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_off0000d85a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD85A 17816 bytes
SHA-256: 993477a2c4f6c538a1d2f1f4bc6fcd59ce00b1bac224ff31db11f54878550f9b
font_01_sfnt_off00010648.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10648 10460 bytes
SHA-256: 263e6397884f98c2fc25a9904e2dd6a5f7286b587401e9a646615e148f41650d
font_02_sfnt_off00011e32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E32 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1