Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ad834f33f3db9d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2021-08-13 09:52:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fbc0b5e8cef5c1ee0968ac6da249bbfe SHA-1: 4ff39c41032e25bf065128d7471d94329feda6ea SHA-256: 4ad834f33f3db9d67592c5fbad7c775fe2a042c6cb69811e7d4543aef68445d6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress upload directories, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://stylist.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608255411a7ab---kivobidu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://deficanderel.org/clients/6/67/674a09facce11b7629d390eef9534ff9/File/4051076186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onekaddy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b75e2ca2988---15356271055.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.medicalalliedtraining.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160928f61e5646---tufifawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1kcvlhsevi4ev7i8qo0duqihig/mofifupitatusadimew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyibnb.com/CKEdit/upload/files/25395703277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontanarosaserigrafia.it/userfiles/file/taduduneponofawibuwuzuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agendatourvietnam.com/hinhanh/file/8799108681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ruchya.com.tw/upload/files/guxaposeranumaxukixotam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pet-fashion.ro/mm/file/41362111072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://callalilyvn.com/upload/files/54873998381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nisbd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609269cd26b6f---winadorulofobidofakalidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kakvkusno26.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/58010214094ec3bb4d83c39e59a140f4/kugekewemix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aliancegroup.su/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa4cbca5834---2047195039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noble-worldwide.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9a51dc758293be6ffd902132c84c63d/zidusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kme.pl/global/app/webroot/uploads/file/16241904118572.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mp-journal.com/media/file/zedilederokifefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kindeeyudee.com/ck_files/files/33061970811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs75.com/clients/46937/File/tinekafekapegejak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://californiaoptionsrealestate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/91f24016485d08d1733f78c9ad68b511/zowilupox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160adc496d9b3f---pobufujafarej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://compie.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a8225dd08a6---95307107116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lhs60to70.com/clients/3/32/32806278e47d7e4d905c37b1d6ebf04a/File/27253586155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+the+armitron+watchPDF 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_off0000d676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD676 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 04182b8957109338aa1b86b4b2d4d05621bf3b1ed148f88c7349eecb9dacd962
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE4C 16512 bytes
SHA-256: a419407e82d75b4905c24e44348d23c330bbc5f991f37528d2a3aab565d599c6
font_02_sfnt_off00011956.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11956 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1