Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4317d8b545d413f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-06-29 06:01:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 351fdcf03cd3d26197011be086f8b613 SHA-1: bf9848259d835c95aa656fa251c6b27ebc603ffd SHA-256: a4317d8b545d413fb249cac2f132fe4c63db74e7db72cd6edeaedc07e3f7c804
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised CMS uploads and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are sufficient evidence of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9952

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bohemiamaestro.com/webpagebuilder/ckfinder/userfiles/files/15469564873.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://mosoptagro.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/aa63f5b34510eaf119e65ddd80d99ccf/37590133809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hdontheroadnapoli.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094722be668e---69941209806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drive4smilesquebec.ca/clients/f/f5/f58105ca183540932673f5bf18e62671/File/74738993868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c224d8c21f---43378074647.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allseasonsart.com/uploads/fck_uploads/file/38111676358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--b1ahhafccpgkb2bxo.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0c3b833844f6b3d1415b34c7ad2b7ddf/gokuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3bdf5b499d---wuluzob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ca6acf1846---22362925937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://terryhaas.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4b92feb10c96b0b01671039748bf47da/lizagugalapogibezesuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mauchlineware.com/html/chapelstreet/web/userfiles/files/24631348743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dipinkrishna.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721a40a1819---lixasudefijopadituxalupaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://imagespa.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16088ae093f955---laputebavetaxuruvab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://houselandia.ru/files/jalawukuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.look4job.gr/images/_user_na/file/rusegazotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://majubesar.info/contents//files/wikobefifezemelagis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aldo-ins.com/userfiles/file/lubenuvibumesewuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kilincsweb.hu/fileok/file/84345300548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brainbond.ro/userfiles/file/lomejurosuroxizemufakitug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peplex.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084a9539339d---36578545132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edwindijk.nl/home/edijk/domains/edwindijk.nl/public_html/uploads/file/6252910398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sakitonus.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8c48b34a0a004f5bc84ef162ae0ccf46/37014639391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepalimodelagency.com/userfiles/file/62589040790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=minitool+partition+wizard+pro+serial+keyPDF 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_off0000ecfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECFE 17068 bytes
SHA-256: f9674850de4cd1dbfd3918c2667a1533c03914bae396f0ed8610bbccd3f48e23
font_01_sfnt_off000119bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x119BF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000131d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x131D6 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 9f21ea988c17f4baa7133ec3b97d88e641847cc3f65260ee60fa18a79aa60b1d