Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4a48b90af121e74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-09-03 22:05:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 0c0a0b823fb58ba0965fabbed6bf4bdf SHA-1: 6afdec1cf663a4f50b7f76765894f4a9f257292b SHA-256: a4a48b90af121e74e142d9701ccbeeee384355d15e4388fcfc15b74009641f6c
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate that this PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=micronutrients+book+pdf
    • https://gfow.om/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/pb3rjutua6290ddvpgjblnslfa/94467945827.pdf
    • http://adoriantarla.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c32c7ad0150---sizozelavalisifivologikut.pdf
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/fumiwika.pdf
    • https://bibliotheque-des-arts.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26643920198.pdf
    • http://sanchariglobal.com/userfiles/file/fodagisodisubakixuzevoju.pdf
    • https://pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mubujisob.pdf
    • http://orderkai.com/uploads/files/65328818681.pdf
    • http://rufullthrottle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ffcdee9412---sukirubisu.pdf
    • http://www.moteco.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612c653f205ac---40224735123.pdf
    • http://amako-ra.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fc601a3ac3ffe1f285ec32c9366bb3e8/xipazejupodimotijejazoked.pdf
    • http://skpizzasubs.com/uploads/files/mafexurese.pdf
    • http://www.saraviation.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a1fc8290697---74325243407.pdf
    • https://inlandautorepairmurrietaca.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/dc0b263da2d5d8d7208b8e8c20eff923/64889762245.pdf
    • http://www.fonfe.com/uploads/files/61309120002.pdf
    • http://phukhoabacninh.com/images/files/95199346524.pdf
    • http://korea-seals.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/43915481759.pdf
    • https://sensesgrouphk.com/louis/STARKGROUP/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41113028030.pdf
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607148fec5ef6---45551505357.pdf
    • https://gdr.co.il/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a61f9aeff594c31813dff570d47c5acd/mosuvopijotubasidelonexad.pdf
    • http://nordicwalkingturak.hu/_user/file/girizulo.pdf
    • https://robertmatzuzi-massagetherapist.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fa4645771f---lefabipojuzebavolunidaw.pdf
    • http://kraski-chernila.ru/resources/file/zuziputawikulepebavotumox.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000da78.bin
0e8b34168f646d6c376bb91cdb0984811dcf5ab8479f67cf711ff3a89cc03cde
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA78 17732 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000108b0.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108B0 16792 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000120c7.bin
b50f71a13bffa9ce18a59397979e25dd4306aa0cb146473be0b99cb1ccc63652
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120C7 10728 bytes