Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4280f4ee4f131d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-07-13 05:43:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: bfe874ec2c9e8c5d41a5b1aa3dca7162 SHA-1: ce2ca79f40538497848d91d40e246b3fe3fb458a SHA-256: a4280f4ee4f131d5936f3603bb3fc53e3063da591c4fcc5d4f43e13b85337fd2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pistant.ru/uplcv?utm_term=2013+ford+fusion+owners+manual PDF link annotation
    • http://csc028.com/userfiles/file/20210708005613_jcam1b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcalesterhighschool1960sreunion.com/clients/e/e6/e641a1dc2b4fc8b0483efb779338bfbd/File/34396507204.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kath-kiga-bw.de/bilder/berichte/file/gifegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bf-pomosch.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3upi7ueqasinqvgq6jjm1qcrq2/pegunobobefotawaxusoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krindustria.com.br/site/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c2fca565bf2---27779453823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stillwaiting.org/userfiles/file/8278874533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160901abb03853---lenafotupelivimujubunaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amesmedicalservices.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099fe618f018---rujoredotirejalagafasopi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzbnf.com/upload/file///fedanir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alfa-pechati.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ef10eadc4897af67b26b9d1b7fe08f06/77858905839.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungarianassociation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160acd9cb299f7---nezafez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://principessavencanice.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b723a06a6dd---sulimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.infrascale.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bffc55d1282a3dfbae4a5cebd10e8a7f/48070019241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ozhelalikram.de/resimler/files/zutetovokap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7f000d682156f6256e81f6755bb0c3b7/52791302524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c14585a0870---zasip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ophtalmic-overnight.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b431b0aa193---24494013529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/qb74ji8tantq6mt4oc1rottck1/xibigolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/79309421901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodtraefarm.com/ckupload/files/tedozekibopogaxobar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/50321842585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobleanimalsanctuary.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tmp/25276718808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.davinci.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b1a0144c145---65892420829.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_off0000c62c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC62C 10972 bytes
SHA-256: 402168a2eca61c6fb4cf597dfda57a0a91f40e58abeb4ceb9944258d51f0142d
font_01_sfnt_off0000dfbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7CF 19368 bytes
SHA-256: 923b2b7ff6240b169ba0f4e792edf680fdf445ba02de48d6fa84bde9ce119587

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