Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a04479465e381ac7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.0 KB Created: 2021-06-29 11:59:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5d3f923e20f65720ee00186d5156b99a SHA-1: b033a60e298bfb0c50d6aab58a49a6fa8e2955f4 SHA-256: a04479465e381ac7a7ff4173db1156b57864d6b32b9238934f8b65a64364e01f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of these links and the overall structure strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sissy+facial+comp PDF link annotation
    • http://www.jhannahs.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160830ce69fb0e---98987087891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aadhaarretail.com/administrator/imagetemp/file/47793647278.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bentzendesign.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d5f75c6e95---3300812255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.empresasdelimpeza.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160998b5257877---puzagomufafip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.basur-tedavisi.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d64b189fab---42318367698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://structurecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e61853cacd---kemozodamuriledupewakobi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totaleclipsenv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ecb84ca6c2---76535581570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dianthusindustrial.com/resimler/files/zanawamebine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://visaonline-vn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tu5f2bhueofge4hi2rrd1bf551/kusibogabezusasisebavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bikinibody.be/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/12gihvsas79aodm0ep2t4ddj0d/57335440795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.alapan.org/fckimages/file/tixukawinexupoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timatey.kz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c113east0ik59aai998v5ptan0/suderegigom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comesa.com.pe/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9b8ok0j56i1slv3citgsin0t25/97515464566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dieta-plus.pl/userfiles/file/65259500712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sanier.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3m3n5ksn3f6l89oro0c2qm9cf1/46089833435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birapart.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16072c5d8188b3---38873845353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ketgate.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d8a9cfef9097cc77463b58b02b77482c/xoxogodidatesonipop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.qbuildsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a6948a021580f956865b38ac5b8bbe59/ladawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maggies-handmade.com/UserFiles/files/zinunirifiwokeviwajakuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iqubz.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160828fdd58197---pamososerizitubupel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chortho.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/r1obhu91osnn0odtq4k7v4ho3e/fowopenujegusodutasejike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/zesemezaxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrotehholding.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/662993ad2d7ac9ce5f46f4fc70f4b73e/ziwutuxe.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_off0000cc79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC79 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e48b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE48B 16444 bytes
SHA-256: e243065c1f8d7e35e1e80f17c7142a11f437df014c53f8cdc5437d4f4db0f047
font_02_sfnt_off00010f8d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F8D 10396 bytes
SHA-256: f4512bbec81448ac1482b120dd60295333f29f820665fb1ea668dc230ffc1219