Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a394790479df1165…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.9 KB Created: 2021-09-08 06:29:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: d0fb34063736fbf1daa6c93fdf6cdffc SHA-1: 6cee2443ac4d55f3f98f1abdc6a8a30e9331244e SHA-256: a394790479df11650dab22eb1febef5eb1b12fd7de577959ca9948fb1da392b6
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised websites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware delivery. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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://wawa757.com/uploads/files/safojudalin.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://grandplaza.bg/uploads/assets/file/kosani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diysmart.net/userfiles/file/42423158612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.denisonlandscaping.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1a4e906b0---gagupenatamag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.avenueroadadvertising.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160813d869054c---dezikegeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://csim.jp/ckeditor/uploads/files/senokamagexelil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dom4m.de/userfiles/files/timapuwozabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sgotomotiv.org/upload/files/71383713183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiji.pgo.tw/pic/uploads/files/98629247915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dienlanhlongan.com/upload/files/xixokajupujipunir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.sk/upload/73195687913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kicksomeglass.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d051fea1fbca4031e20ff4fc4c9b89e7/2043066835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leavereview.com/customerinterview/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zufimifutifep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4rrecycle.com/files/file/26249520329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olimpic.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34555284931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://glasschneider.koeln/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/afr36t6f6eciavpdmgan6m9ao4/gofigod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iccarrentals.com/files/file/xolimagavuperap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reachcast.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c312f5d6b909b57245baa2c1e19aa700/mupifakado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marbellamohali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/541da54458a1f8fa654cab5f262d9001/bawodiwemolemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aurangabadptti.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/81299994386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://netron.pt/app/webroot/media/files/gewonedoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kindytennis.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3f3382b18---xifebupadokabedado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baschin-heizung.com/meineBilderAlbertGrundschule/file/tisaburedugiwef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkoronetour.com/userfiles/file/20458395592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fra2ange.it/userfiles/files/kalexivoderojavisatudigon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=free+test+taking+skills+worksheetsPDF 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_off00013e31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13E31 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00015643.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15643 18800 bytes
SHA-256: 1c9279359b8ea205debb70955bd25b232fb23bf1dc6ec7abe72326520c365a06
font_02_sfnt_off000187d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x187D5 10544 bytes
SHA-256: 19645ad58dda15b6240c02c6ca772bd7aa9ed600f069d01cce4564435da038e3