Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d04843591a9f699…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-09-02 17:10:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 40259aa46969d24c691ecfc584c8193f SHA-1: 560a1d7ac8995763938c2b2ffcbf974e1bbfa7b4 SHA-256: 4d04843591a9f699ab2783037b2f30b71e1b260bf176854dcf1d4e52cb1ca424
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and other domains that host PDF files, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or redirection to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are consistent with malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9908

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://asiajitutop.com/contents//files/vafeduganoxixala.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fszhenjia.com/upfolder/e/files/20210619174336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dongytueduc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/32ce2nigteh74f3e8930vp5pl9/muligerutisatufeliko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ponderosafestival.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b122987db1---wubusivugolenigafaxoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://highlandcougars83.com/clients/2/26/268573c5102cd00412bac87cee9346ec/File/54837788597.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://terapie-psi.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d32501c6b3---fimaxiriz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kasintorn.com/images/upload/files/40685990909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toptoptraining.ru/img/upload/file/vuvorudawef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ibyservice.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b69aa57eb4e746105e6860b59fcd673/modewubotesutudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chataigne-cevennes.fr/imgs/files/1091580463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robalton.es/Albums/images/file///26579519621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnslib.net/userfiles/files/57450810664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indiantalentjunction.com/milan/media/tazoxukivifuvilululavemin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://easytravel63.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nigesijifigodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kengosushionlineorder.com/uploads/files/tazerogobexatol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://english-island.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/shnt88t1m7uuqkg9bu17gi2ab1/zifetob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.com/images/uploads/files/kedugutetuguman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vinisfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/22d364b8d8b9d5a60b1a9854aa15d568/61387382975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stomatoloska-ordinacija-rijeka.com/files/88515587790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://unique.global/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d62591dab7682ef86657b83012cd22fc/vuvivaduresovoganik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cutletsmeat.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bafee763241---dasefosegobata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.allatpatikapecs.hu/images/file/divofikavivosexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://messianic.live/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f87dd6cc550d559577d4e895341f4378/4236268575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://piauiaqui.com/ckfinder/files/tapodawadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trunglamdecor.com/uploads/userfiles/file/gefamiwebalojebevakabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yatros.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086096f58c32---10972606549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/ngfLrbzwjls/uplcv?utm_term=inteligencia+linguistica+pdfPDF 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_off0000c795.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC795 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 0463699b8fbdbc7586e7543470ea5f49f174a324fae5548a1bf18a8b8a3d4d0a
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFD1 19652 bytes
SHA-256: 0c991ebc69cab2c3fd5e3b76337e74c0a9c13ed0e18bde82557984900362813e
font_02_sfnt_off00011102.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11102 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1