Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4505bb27c91e8af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-09-04 09:13:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 91c30be9699f9330fb1179d548aa57ad SHA-1: 579261f358943a4dfb2f26d739cd5c7ed1e0148c SHA-256: a4505bb27c91e8af4554889690c79dc594387eb9694137b9af4d94878d2a4a88
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to host malicious content or redirect to phishing pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9911

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://medvor.ru/uplcv?utm_term=define+productivity+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://dolaodong.com/userfiles/file/mamupale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://accesoriosalmayor.com/images/userfiles/file/23980708743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adamlegal.com/userfiles/file/jorab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.travelticket.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bof97cg16cf7du5s0626remmj6/togovesefevijepeveziz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/421765819cb1027c3e58f85a51554185/lukiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://evenimentecastel.ro/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cbqhpmmjooact3unqinsv4rur2/fitonixuwetojavasopimup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.finanzanlagen-honorarberatung.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16071edf44bccf---fazoluxidenerivorap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3f619bpjqmr3mnh214bosq7c9t/31692339420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lerong.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45bacb2914b1920acabe5166e00aba75/gimod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kidnuri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160716f6fccdbe---takifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.maoles.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16091027899c09---45510815084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ttlengenharia.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606d4a7dd3c94---sovabevowoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplolux72.ru/upload/file/34498616667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brylka-kfz.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609847ec6b16b---74247633683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runningrhinelanderrabbitry.com/clients/875187/File/79215053219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/38150053243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tai.gr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16131203239e79---wewutufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://syuncyoku.jp/upload/file/34872072174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ipcare.nl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/31pkndcafopdkvkrhs78va8cup/86934565053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sketchup360.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t8d3846p002kuk08bo7hi4ms8v/82558882345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farmina.ru/uploads/files/zisemamobisuxozezezomob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d8f2c17aee---69901897525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortlauderdalelimorental.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608098867bdec---25569816593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/997429d23f891081543c20511f2e325c/85876760421.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://successstudio.net/userfiles/file/53512158470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://townsendrogersfamilyreunion.com/clients/9/91/912616e09393d205379ff76530a10a1f/File/68844121592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goldfieldssanddrags.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30723696673.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_off0000dfbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBD 19372 bytes
SHA-256: 5735f5229db8541c6d1820708f30ac6bd393004905dab8824f6f641220d07e10
font_01_sfnt_off00011116.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11116 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001292d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1292D 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 30e33ff0716895cf0785044625ffd3ee0bc33cbb078602a3191fbd33297ca054