Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4afb0731e7c4fd6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

135.9 KB Created: 2021-06-27 23:10:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 6593db190bce38bb6f02b812c99be8f7 SHA-1: 1bd06180ea881f425466a8f68c310fe05c6e4e40 SHA-256: 4afb0731e7c4fd6c071a456f710475dd4b501c3bea62a34a2ce19067cfeebb8f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised WordPress sites, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://na-nule.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/vtasc5q8slt18pkt68rp707592/tavijusomazaxifekoruso.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://joepromenshealth.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/02b65ec2f707a403233cef0f4e68516e/daxukij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattstergamer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tdqq21ijapcrnhcfaafn88hb3h/nosesisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amphorabeautyclub.com/campannas/file/84013818893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiogreenwich.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fd9ac0dd79a47adba52212c5b3b1ed62/50968024879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d50e8d0d12---26086017584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/59397753548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.brunosistemi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b6fea97199---bagujipif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bagpack.com.np/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608de899ac967---49754154879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://smilepaper.tw/archive/upload/files/nugurujozobebalogesoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guaitoli.eng.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a86abc8121---ginidawezakolevejaxulap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanhthien.net/uploads/file/suguxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16090313eeb3c3---napoper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hypnotiseur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160beb63dd66ec---biwadomumopifulanarozid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.naturapreserved.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16078bf797a3aa---30710101525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://markzone.az/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/g03o6otung3mao9a7m1j1oucp6/55283197927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indagosrl.it/userfiles/files/vepakepavalupak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vce34.ru/attachments/file/36563861982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acronimocostanzo.com/userfiles/file/wakutevanudapuravos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhathuydesign.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/id5av4cb6h8h8jurch9tfs3642/dodojijibubum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.masozilina.sk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wosexewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avantkart.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uq3rcqua50d1joce3345fobogo/detoxelitaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalcheck.it/public/img_admin/file///ladebewojezabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodeli.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609297ebdc9cc---bididodenarutibitapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=wow+pet+levelingPDF 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_off0001b397.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1B397 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0001cba9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CBA9 18596 bytes
SHA-256: 9e5b52c92bf86c1b250b2e2de3f18ed5851def1cf3f922c85734e312eb6bd85e
font_02_sfnt_off0001fb94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1FB94 10140 bytes
SHA-256: 6a1fb00c0caca77030fa4030669b5747cf07800acfab878e1ef82300dd34c9b2