Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a9a43ee86c4b7bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 11:01:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 5dde5adc0ee3f898f6874df3d3d504bf SHA-1: da7679669cd28afcaeb1c4fe4d60c9eefc0f9c56 SHA-256: 4a9a43ee86c4b7bc6d2e8981de309b5fb56b222edffd316e1c7932a8cde79fa7
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, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure indicate an attempt to lure users to external sites, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9860

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=unity+2d+ios PDF link annotation
    • http://arcomproltd.com/userfiles/file/80282927661.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syntrend.critical.tw/upload/files/68646044720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mwcapital.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34049736205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlfuelmarine.com/userfiles/file/bogaxakulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcaribe.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/busiveweravivejazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8535c2ca6f40c2d13d31ea6655be6021/jojejav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vadihosting.com/calisma2/files/uploads/tofuvapafifaler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://celyroknaterase.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/23360396259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friluftsgruppen.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161383c8d27eb8---felijukaxutelemujoburon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glavis.biz/userfiles/file/13873410167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138374fe27b4---zoxaluz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cbafjvn.com/uploads/userfiles/file/923320214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rintoyo.com/userfiles/file/kimenegagoxosizejokatawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amoslodge10-org.alljobsinliberia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/62369770095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozcetinler.com/userfiles/file/20322409282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lotusmarinevn.com/upload/files/94916248990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runbo.net/upfiles/files/16315776006822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3eae4b198---89842105847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mehreganimaging.ir/images/upload/files/71037707930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.myhhsi.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b19e03340582b422f285fd53f012abf8/dupezewegivubevosaluzakod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161328f747e3a3---roworasusesinivepemuguru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://renebeumer.nl/userfiles/file/6127695546.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edusfera.pl/upload/file/53649517999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carmelocuritiba.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42852937072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bekkercoon.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77155917925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blueyee.com/upload/file/040431171300.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_off0000e3d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000fbf0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBF0 10040 bytes
SHA-256: a395350d476782d5312bf610618c521fcc5801c3ddb4edfb8aac5912077ed58d
font_02_sfnt_off0001126c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1126C 18472 bytes
SHA-256: ffa0f19c1e9be85d1ecb8eb105aa84436b5a4643becb3864c02e27f5d2dc3db1